Quotes About Affection

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to reach out and touch a loving body, to be held in loving arms. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so difficult to give up hope.

Alice watched us with the affectionate, slightly mocking look that women get when they witness a conversation between men—that oddity, not quite buggery, or duel, but something in between. Above our heads the linden branches stirred in the breeze. Just then, in the distance, I heard a soft, muffled noise like an explosion.

El amor de los padres a sus hijos es algo constatable, es una suerte de fenómeno natural, sobre todo en las mujeres; pero los hijos no corresponden nunca a este amor y nunca son dignos de recibirlo, el amor de los hijos a sus padres es absolutamente contra natura.

La tendresse est antérieure à la séduction, c'est pourquoi il est si difficile de désespérer.

La tendresse maternelle et l'érotisme des amants ne sont que des aspects particuliers de l'ardent besoin de contact physique qui fait le fond de la chair et du cÅ"ur.

Which left me with the cheery knowledge that my father would wan tto spend time with me even if i were a cold, stiff corpse. not every daughter can say that, i bet!

The memory brought back the timbre of her voice and the tickle of her hair on my chin as I put her to bed that night and the feeling of belonging to someone, mattering to someone, having someone whose first smile in the morning was for you. Someone who slipped their hand into yours when they were scared and trusted you to make them feel better. Someone who knew you, the important things about you, and loved you anyway.

For your information, I do love you. Although at times like this I have to wonder why.

He had been a shy, affectionate child to whom Céleste fed Milo straight from the tin. Sometimes she tortured him, singing, 'Dominiquenique-nique…' while slitting her eyes until his chin shook.

Love makes the time pass, but time makes love pass, too.

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave.

He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn't realize it yet.

I can wait. I am in love with you, Marie. You don't have to say it yet. I know you like to think things through. Make plans. But plan on this. I want to marry you.

I know how I'd feel if I had children. I'd never want them to feel I didn't love them more than anything else in the world. If I ever have a little girl, I think I'll be a wonderful mother to her, and if I can help it, I'll never be away from her for a minute.

Love lasts only for months, sometimes only for minutes. But if you like somebody, it's for a lifetime!

Another South African serial killer who fixated in the Oedipus phase was the Cape Town Prostitute Killer. He had, however, lost the battle for his mother's affection and felt mentally castrated by her rejection and her preference for other men.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name

There is no love lost, sir.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.