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Loyalty

Lines about staying present when presence costs something.

01

“Love is being known in detail and chosen in full.”

— ToastBuddy original

02

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

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03

“Loyalty is the chair that is still there when the room gets difficult.”

— ToastBuddy original

04

“The deepest promises are usually kept in small acts of returning.”

— ToastBuddy original

05

“Friendship is not measured by the biggest day; it is built in the ordinary ones someone keeps showing up for.”

— ToastBuddy original

06

“Family is partly inheritance and partly practice: the repeated choice to make room for one another.”

— ToastBuddy original

07

“You never made me earn my place again after a bad day.”

— ToastBuddy original

08

“When the news got harder to hear, you asked what time to come over.”

— ToastBuddy original

09

“The promise I trusted was the one you kept after everyone stopped checking.”

— ToastBuddy original

10

“We can trace your loyalty through the miles you traveled for people who needed you.”

— ToastBuddy original

11

“You stayed on the call long after you had an easy reason to hang up.”

— ToastBuddy original

12

“Even in your busiest years, there was room in your day for my news.”

— ToastBuddy original

13

“Let us make room for these memories next week, too, when there is no service to gather us.”

— ToastBuddy original

14

“There was still work after the thank-yous, and you were there doing it.”

— ToastBuddy original

15

“I knew I belonged when someone noticed I had not been there.”

— ToastBuddy original

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Speeches about loyalty