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• On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

  Jim Carroll

  Watches, Body, Too Much

  Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland

  Judith McNaught

  Giving, Wife, Mistress

  Judith McNaught (1991). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Choose a companion of your own faith. You are much more likely to be happy. Choose a companion you can always honor, you can always respect, one who will complement you in your own life, one to whom you can give your entire heart, your entire love, your entire allegiance, your entire loyalty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Giving, Honor

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• it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the headlines we long to return to our ancestral home where our forebears once lived under an angel’s wing we long to find that strange morality which sanctified life to the end we crave something like loyalty like the embrace of mild addictions something that transcends yet contains life we cannot live far from eternity

  Michel Houellebecq

  Home, Angel, Breathing

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• Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

  Georges Bataille

  Solitude, Sovereignty

  Georges Bataille (2004). “The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge”, p.167, U of Minnesota Press

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• Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

  Stephen King

  Running, Art, Book

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• I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wise, Real, Commitment

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.46, Penguin Group

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• In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Character, Maps

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.486

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• But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical.-Drizzt Do'urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Soul, Tangible

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• The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.

  Martin Amis

  Mother, Children, Father

  Martin Amis (1973). “The Rachel papers”, Jonathan Cape

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• It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Powerful, Fog, People

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• Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

  Frank Herbert

  Son, Loss, Men

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.115, Penguin

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• It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Two, People, Expectations

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• Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Self, Suffering

  Louisa May Alcott (1869). “Hospital Sketches and Camp and Fireside Stories”, p.251

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• Our father was a great warrior. Our mother is proud and strong. They shared only one flaw: that their only loyalty was to themselves above all other cats. We're not like that. We understand what it means to be loyal to our Clan. We have the courage to live by the warrior code. And because of that we'll be the most powerful cats in RiverClan one day, and our Clanmates will have to respect us then.

  Erin Hunter

  Mother, Strong, Powerful

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• This is not my Clan. Not any longer. ThunderClan is led by a kittypet, and there's nothing left to fight for. I feel no loyalty to ThunderClan. In the whole forest, the only cat worth following is Tigerstar.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Fighting, Forests

  "The Darkest Hour". Book by Erin Hunter, 2004.

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• Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to the needs of the Clan, and was never swayed by self-interest or pride. He would have made a fine leader.

  Erin Hunter

  Warrior, Pride, Self

  Erin Hunter (2015). “Warriors 6-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Enter the Clans: Books 1-6 Plus Enter the Clans”, p.29, HarperCollins

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• He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.” “He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Covenant, Magnus Bane, Lost Souls

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• Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

  Wallace Stegner

  Lying, Hands, Giving

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• He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and he wasn't about to be impressed with some upstart of a toaster salesman who drove a Bonneville.

  Janet Evanovich

  Feet, Toasters, Underwear

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

  Dennis Lehane

  Thinking, Ornaments, Sacred

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• Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

  Neil Gaiman

  Elephants, Leader, Circus

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• She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

  Thornton Wilder

  Dog, Children, Passion

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• Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --" "He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Effort, Tone

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• They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Dog, Moving

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