Zadie Smith Quotes

I would like to think that monogamy works: that once you make that vow, that decision in your life to stay committed, you actually get to keep that promise; you get to keep that commitment. I think that once you start to lose that, once you start to wonder, even emotionally - especially emotionally - your relationship is bound to get lost.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Love is a fickle thing. But I still believe in it.

Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

Love is a believing creature.

We put our faith in love.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

Forever," he vowed, still a little staggered. "That's all I'm asking for," I said.

I believe in those whom I love and trust.

There cannot be love without trust and there cannot be trust unless we take the responsibility to act in a way that people can trust us.

I am lucky enough to be married to someone who I believe in totally and who believes in me totally.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

To love is the half of to believe.

She would tell him what she wanted in her life--her hopes and dreams for the future--and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.

The best proof of love is trust.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!