Love Martyr/Quotes

"She cuts you once

She cuts you twice

But still you believe

The wound is so fresh you can taste the blood

But you don't have strength to leave."

- Billy Joel, "Stiletto"

"I've been a martyr for love

I need to be by your side

I have knelt at your feet

I have felt your deceit

Couldn't leave if I tried"

- Depeche Mode, "Martyr"

"Hermione you're so lovely

I shiver and I shake

Even when you shove me

Into the Great Lake

And hold me under water

With your dainty foot

If you were any hotter

I would turn to soot!"

- Ron from the Potter Puppet Pals musical

"Fate: I... am not Alicia Testarossa. However, I... Fate Testarossa... was born by you and raised by you. I am your daughter!

Precia: (laughs) So what? You expect me to think of you as my daughter now?

Fate: If you wish... If you wish, I will protect you from anyone or anything in this entire world. Not because I'm your daughter... but because you're my mother!"

- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Episode 12

""I am your spaniel, and, Demetrius, The more you beat me I will fawn on you. Use me but as your spaniel: spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave (Unworthy as I am) to follow you. What worser place can I beg in your love (And yet a place of high respect with me) Than to be used as your dog?""

- Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, Scene 1

""The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care, right? Yeah!""

- "Self-Esteem" by The Offspring

""Senna the witch was selfish and cruel and manipulative, but I would always love her, always try to protect her."

- David Levin, Understand the Unknown.

"''If loving her is a heartache for me

And if holding her means that I have to bleed

Then I am the martyr and love is to blame

[...]

If right is leaving, I'd rather be wrong.''"

- Trading Yesterday, "She Is the Sunlight"

"You are my princess and I am your servant

Fate divided these pitiful twins

If it means that I can protect you

Then I too will become evil"

- Len Kagamine, "Servant of Evil"