" Very well,” she said after a moment. “Here is how I see that loyalty and love are the same: You would lay down your life for someone for reasons of both love and loyalty. But loyalty implies dependence, doesn’t it? For instance, dogs are loyal. It also implies indebtedness. For instance, servants are loyal.”

“It also implies integrity. And honor. And—”

“Steadfastness,” she completed, with only a hint of irony.

“So you see them as absolutes then, Miss Redmond? Love means to be willing to die for someone, and loyalty perhaps the same?”

“How can they be otherwise? "

― Julie Anne Long , I Kissed an Earl (Pennyroyal Green, #4)