#devotion

We were both satellites orbiting Denny’s sun, struggling for gravitational supremacy. Of course, she had the advantage of her tongue and her thumbs, and when I watched her kiss and fondle him sometimes she would glance at me and wink as if to gloat: Look at my thumbs! See what they can do! ↗

— Garth Stein

#dogs #thumbs #art

How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#death #devotion #leaving #love #death

Love is years of devotion, sacrifice, commitment, loyalty, trust, faith, and friendship all wrapped up in one. True love does more than cause your heart to flutter. It upholds your heart when the infatuation no longer makes it flutter. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#devotion #eena #heart #infatuation #love

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#faithfulness #loyalty #perseverance #faith

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love

From the first time I saw you, I've belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me. -Jace ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #obsession #love

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours. ↗

— Jane Austen

#love #pronouncements-of-love #love

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#love #lovers #love

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#study #theology #theology

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not. ↗

— Jane Austen

#devotion