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• Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy to some, heartbreak to others, depending on circumstance. There is evidence that the emotion can make a person live longer, evidence it can kill you early. I think it's akin to a deadly disease. Or at least some exotic fever. Catch it, and you'd better, quick, swallow some medication to use as a weapon against the fire ravaging body and soul.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, Fire, Joy

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• Gareth turned to Gregory. “Your sister will be safe with me,” he said. “I give you my vow.” “Oh, I have no worries on that score,” Gregory said with a bland smile. “The real question is—will you be safe with her?” It was a good thing, Gareth later reflected, that Hyacinth had already quit the room to fetch her coat and her maid. She probably would have killed her brother on the spot.

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Real, Giving

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• I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

  John Green

  Moving, Thinking, Invisibility Cloak

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• The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Eye, Two

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• I will find her." "And when you do?" Roger asked. "I will make her mine," the warrior answered in a hard, determined voice. "She will be mine." The vow was made.

  Julie Garwood

  Warrior, Voice, Roger

  Julie Garwood (2011). “Gentle Warrior”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• ....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.

  Kristin Hannah

  Cutting, People, Forever

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.236, Ballantine Books

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• Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Tears, Looks

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.149

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• You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Hate, Eye, Two

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• It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Names, Insane, Nine

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• Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mistake, Night, Attachment

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Touching the Earth: 46 Guided Meditations for Mindfulness Practice: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever, flatter with vows of only me. But are they empty promises? I stare into his eyes, as into a crystal ball, but I cannot find forever, only movies of yesterday, a sketchbook of today, dreams of a shared tomorrow. His eyes whisper secrets. But are they truths or fairy tales? I wonder if even he knows.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Lying, Eye

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

  Kathleen Norris

  Mean, Saying Yes, Cost

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• I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reflection, Remember, Forget

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• In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Nice, Mean, Broken

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Wind

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.536, Bantam

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• I am only a little lion, child, and I vow, I shall not savage you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Savages, Lions

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.751, Bantam

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• Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dirty, Argument, Laundry

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• In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?" "You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?

  Julia Quinn

  Husband, Mean, Three

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• The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!" "They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!" "Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Men, Silence

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• There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love Christ with undivided love; to be able to love him with undivided love we take a vow of poverty which frees us from all material possessions, and with that freedom we can love him with undivided love, and from this vow of undivided love we surrender ourselves totally to him in the person who takes his place.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Jesus, Able

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• I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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• Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Fall, Greek

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.745, Wordsworth Editions

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• Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Sincerity, Sincere

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• She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Men, Yellow

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, House, Kitchen

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