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"Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother's elder brother."
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"Loyalty is what matters, and that exists now, not in the past. Loyalty has to be proved every day, in every piece of fresh - kill brought back for the Clan, every claw mark on our enemies, every patrol, every training session."
Erin Hunter
"Loyalty is what matters, and that exists now, not in the past. Loyalty has to be proved every day, in every piece of fresh - kill brought back for the Clan, every claw mark on our enemies, every patrol, every training session."
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"My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this."
Joss Whedon
"My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... Wear it with the heart pointing towards you. It means you belong to somebody. Like this."
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"In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love."
Amit Kalantri
"In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love."
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"He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!"
Rick Riordan
"He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!"
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"The Crown Prince of Adarlan stared him down. "And consider where your true loyalties lie."Once, Chaol might have argued. Once, he might have protested that his loyalty to the crown was his greatest asset. But that blind loyalty and obedience had started this descent.And it had destroyed everything."
Sarah J. Maas
"The Crown Prince of Adarlan stared him down. "And consider where your true loyalties lie."Once, Chaol might have argued. Once, he might have protested that his loyalty to the crown was his greatest asset. But that blind loyalty and obedience had started this descent.And it had destroyed everything."
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"Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor."
Leigh Bardugo
"Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor."
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"Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment."
Eoin Colfer
"Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment."
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"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
William Shakespeare
"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
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"When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What's more, there is no one to save you because you've turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system."
Carlos Wallace
"When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What's more, there is no one to save you because you've turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system."
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"It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships."
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
"It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships."
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"He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you."
Leigh Bardugo
"He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you."
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"There was no way I was going to let him die. He was my other half; without him, I felt incomplete. I wasn't sure if this was my dragon talking or me,but I couldn't imagine a world without Riley."
Julie Kagawa
"There was no way I was going to let him die. He was my other half; without him, I felt incomplete. I wasn't sure if this was my dragon talking or me,but I couldn't imagine a world without Riley."
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"When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up."
C. S. Lewis
"When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up."
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"If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?"
Donna Lynn Hope
"If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?"
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"Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained."
Jim Butcher
"Littlemouse was in danger, doubtless a prisoner, and the humans could not be trusted to handle her rescue with appropriate violence. They might be willing to leave someone alive, and Rowl was not prepared to tolerate incompetence where his personal human was concerned. He had just gotten her properly trained."
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"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin - to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours, closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid, but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin - to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours, closer than you yourself keep it. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway: there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the ring. We are horribly afraid, but we are coming with you; or following you like hounds."
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"Giving him a grateful nod, Graydon turned away.A heavy hand fell on his shoulder, causing him to stop in his tracks. Dragos' grip clenched, almost to the point of pain.Normally, Dragos was not demonstrative with anyone other than Pia and Liam. Moved, Graydon angled his face away. After a moment, he reached up to grip the other man's hand in return. Only then did Dragos' hold ease and allow him to continue on his way."
Thea Harrison
"Giving him a grateful nod, Graydon turned away.A heavy hand fell on his shoulder, causing him to stop in his tracks. Dragos' grip clenched, almost to the point of pain.Normally, Dragos was not demonstrative with anyone other than Pia and Liam. Moved, Graydon angled his face away. After a moment, he reached up to grip the other man's hand in return. Only then did Dragos' hold ease and allow him to continue on his way."
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"Her thoughts pulsated through him, frantic, desperate, pleading for him to stay behind.'I won't-can't, he murmured. 'If you're going, so am I.She exhaled a laborious sigh and flung her arms around his neck; her warm breath fanned over his skin as she tightened her grip. 'If you die, Andrew, I'll track you across multiple dimensions just to say I warned you, she cautioned, voice tender."
Laura Kreitzer
"Her thoughts pulsated through him, frantic, desperate, pleading for him to stay behind.'I won't-can't, he murmured. 'If you're going, so am I.She exhaled a laborious sigh and flung her arms around his neck; her warm breath fanned over his skin as she tightened her grip. 'If you die, Andrew, I'll track you across multiple dimensions just to say I warned you, she cautioned, voice tender."
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"He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too."
Patricia Briggs
"He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too."
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"I know that you are my guard, and you are my best friend. I know you would die for me. And I know that should that ever happen, I would die immediately after."
Marissa Meyer
"I know that you are my guard, and you are my best friend. I know you would die for me. And I know that should that ever happen, I would die immediately after."
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"I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn't do that, I'd at least be there for her. (Eric)"
Shannon A. Thompson
"I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn't do that, I'd at least be there for her. (Eric)"
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"Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the realization of an ideal?"
Justin K. McFarlane Beau
"Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the realization of an ideal?"
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"He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong."
Graham Greene
"He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong."
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"That's the kind of guy you'd follow to hell and back."
Richelle Mead
"That's the kind of guy you'd follow to hell and back."
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"For you, a thousand times over!"
Khaled Hosseini
"For you, a thousand times over!"
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"I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that."
Kami Garcia
"I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that."
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"Loyalty, love and respect perhaps have never been expounded with such agility like this one 'Loyalty has its roots in respect and respect is the fruit of Love, and Love drives out the demons of the imagination " which distrust everything and everyone " and, instead, returns purity to our gaze'. He cites that 'Loyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity or intimidation'. 'And because it is a choice, it will never tolerate betrayal, but will always be generous with mistakes'."
Paulo Coelho
"Loyalty, love and respect perhaps have never been expounded with such agility like this one 'Loyalty has its roots in respect and respect is the fruit of Love, and Love drives out the demons of the imagination " which distrust everything and everyone " and, instead, returns purity to our gaze'. He cites that 'Loyalty can never be imposed by force, fear, insecurity or intimidation'. 'And because it is a choice, it will never tolerate betrayal, but will always be generous with mistakes'."
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"Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there."
Habeeb Akande
"Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there."
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"Anytime you need me, just call. I'll stop everything for you. Any fucking thing on this earth."
Kenya Wright
"Anytime you need me, just call. I'll stop everything for you. Any fucking thing on this earth."
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"Your greatest friendships are those that survive the greatest storms."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Your greatest friendships are those that survive the greatest storms."
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"All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion."
George R. R. Martin
"All Knights must bleed. Blood is the seal of our devotion."
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"You'll always come back to warn him, no matter how much danger it could put you in, no matter what it costs you, because he cared for you when you thought you were nothing. You were never nothing. That didn't matter. Perception is everything in this world."
Seanan McGuire
"You'll always come back to warn him, no matter how much danger it could put you in, no matter what it costs you, because he cared for you when you thought you were nothing. You were never nothing. That didn't matter. Perception is everything in this world."
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"If people ever question your loyalty, you never had theirs."
Justin K. McFarlane Beau
"If people ever question your loyalty, you never had theirs."
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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
"Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants."
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"There aren't many things a man finds more appealing than loyalty. Unless it's a woman with really big knockers."
Lois Greiman
"There aren't many things a man finds more appealing than loyalty. Unless it's a woman with really big knockers."
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"It was the least she could do. For Nehemia-for. . . a lot of other people. There was nothing left in her, not really. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she'd carved into her flesh, to the friend who had seen her for what she truly was."
Sarah J. Maas
"It was the least she could do. For Nehemia-for. . . a lot of other people. There was nothing left in her, not really. Only ash and an abyss and the unbreakable vow she'd carved into her flesh, to the friend who had seen her for what she truly was."
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"I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can."
Gillian Flynn
"I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can."
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"The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?"
Graham Greene
"The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?"
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"In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laudry room of their appartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. "Well, Ares, it's been great. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm completely dooming to annihilation everbody who's helped me down here, but I'm really not up for this whole war thing anymore. So, fly you high, you know?" Like that would ever happen."
Suzanne Collins
"In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laudry room of their appartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. "Well, Ares, it's been great. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm completely dooming to annihilation everbody who's helped me down here, but I'm really not up for this whole war thing anymore. So, fly you high, you know?" Like that would ever happen."
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"Wolves and women wed for life."
George R. R. Martin
"Wolves and women wed for life."
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"Do you really think I'd let him call my sister a 'bitch?' Or you for that matter? Talon Hawk's dumb, but he's smarter than that he'd be crawling around on his hands and knees picking his teeth off the tiles."
Elle Lothlorien
"Do you really think I'd let him call my sister a 'bitch?' Or you for that matter? Talon Hawk's dumb, but he's smarter than that he'd be crawling around on his hands and knees picking his teeth off the tiles."
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"Develop the wings of loyalty and you will fly above the dooms of disappointments. Disloyalty has one whistle; when it's blown, opportunities take to their heels!"
Israelmore Ayivor
"Develop the wings of loyalty and you will fly above the dooms of disappointments. Disloyalty has one whistle; when it's blown, opportunities take to their heels!"
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"Given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love."
Milan Kundera
"Given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love."
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"To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care."
Brandon Sanderson
"To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care."
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"Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use."
Paulo Coelho
"Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use."
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"Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall."
Bangambiki Habyarimana
"Only dogs know and respect their masters. This is a rare characteristic of men who secretly envy their masters and wish their downfall."
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"The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again."
Lenny Kravitz
"The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again."
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"I don't want any other friends! They'd never be as good a friend as you are."
Rebecca McNutt
"I don't want any other friends! They'd never be as good a friend as you are."
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"Inej placed her hands on Nina's shoulders. "We'll see each other again."Of course we will. You've saved my life. I've saved yours."I think you're ahead on that count."No, I don't mean in the big ways. Nina's eyes took them all in. "I mean the little rescues. Laughing at my jokes. Forgiving me when I was foolish. Never trying to make me feel small. It doesn't matter if it's next month, or next year, or ten years from now, those will be the things I remember when I see you again.Kaz offered his gloved hand to Nina. "Until then, Zenik."Count on it, Brekker. They shook."
Leigh Bardugo
"Inej placed her hands on Nina's shoulders. "We'll see each other again."Of course we will. You've saved my life. I've saved yours."I think you're ahead on that count."No, I don't mean in the big ways. Nina's eyes took them all in. "I mean the little rescues. Laughing at my jokes. Forgiving me when I was foolish. Never trying to make me feel small. It doesn't matter if it's next month, or next year, or ten years from now, those will be the things I remember when I see you again.Kaz offered his gloved hand to Nina. "Until then, Zenik."Count on it, Brekker. They shook."
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