#sacrifice

You are my queen. I’ve spent nine centuries seeking the mortal who would free this court, who would save my best friend’s son, who would save the lives of the rest of the girls who were not you. I’d die before I’d allow harm to you.” He bowed his head. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#niall #love

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#caring-for-others #caring-loved-one #illness #parenting #sacrifice

If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#sacrifice #love

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#sacrifice #self-giving #love

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#sacrifice #success #woman #love

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#sacrifice #love

Get up guys. We’ve got a visit to pay.” “What are you talking about?” “I am not hanging out with Blake Lazar again. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#lissa #rose #rose-hathaway #rose-hathaway

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#last-sacrifice #romance #rose-hathaway #sonya-karp #rose-hathaway

Sacrifices made for love are fine, unless the sacrifice is you. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#relationships #sacrifices #love

I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world. The dead could finally have me. And Iʹd fulfilled my purpose, right? To protect? Iʹd done it. Iʹd saved Lissa, just like Iʹd sworn Iʹd always do. I was dying in battle. No appointment books for me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #love