#loyalty

The death of this honorable man upon this battlefield leaves all of us the poorer for his loss, yet so much the richer for the friendship and love and loyalty with which he gifted us in life. May his spirit speed unhindered to the other side to join those already there and to await us until we join him in our own times. ↗

— Walter C. Conner

#love #loyalty #death

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#family #first #i #jackie #kennedy

It's not how many friends you can count, it's how many of those you can count on. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#loyalty #trust #friendship

Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and the mistakes we make because of those illusions. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#dog-lover #dogs #loyalty #beauty

There are two things which are mine in this world, You and my Dreams and I love them both by heart and soul....! ↗

— M.H. Rakib

#dreams #love #loyalty #dreams

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile. ↗

— Holly Black

#family #honor #life #loyalty #mafia

Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’ I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to Isabel.’ ‘That’s why you can trust me to win it for you,’ he says simply. ‘When your interests and mine are the same, you can be certain that I will care for you as for myself. You will be my own. You will find that I care for my own.’ ‘You will be true to me?’ ‘Loyalty is my motto. When I give my word, you can trust me. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#equality-between-partners #husband-and-wife #love #loyalty #marriage

Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#love #loyalty #family

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. ↗

— Haniel Long

#love #loyalty #stability #family

Her hands flew to her mouth. 'Are we even twins?' Josh rested his hand on her shoulder and brought his forehead to rest against hers, strands of their blond hair mingling. 'I will always be your brother, Sophie. I will always look after you. ↗

— Michael Scott

#family-love #loyalty #protection #siblings #twins