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Quotes About Affection

For, after he had affectionately embraced her, so affectionately that she was sure that one of her tendons had snapped..
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Love—that was what a man wanted; needed; simply had to have. Kind love. Sweet, smiling, gracious love. In one's house like sunshine, filling it with light; in one's garden like roses, filling it with fragrance. Ah, how he could imagine it! How well he could imagine it, the sort of heaven there would be about a man all day—and all night too, if, by the blessing of God, one happened to have married Love.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Mother must have been kissed too, and she's still alive …
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
I loved my mother. I wanted her to smile, to believe that I was doing the right thing. But that wasn't going to happen. So I ducked my head and kept on going.
~ Elizabeth Warren
KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!
~ Elizabeth Wein
Affection as medicine is highly overrated...a person who is as sick with depression as I most certainly was cannot possibly be rescued through the power of anyone's love.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind, and all others should be blind and deaf.
~ Ellis Peters
there was a deep emotional attachment involved.
~ Alfred Lansing
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is the only gold.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Love is and was my lord and king.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Love can never give too much, But those of us who love Can give in too much.
~ Alfred Stuart, Jr.
Te necesito. A tí, querida alma de mi pasado sombrío -se apretó junto a él tanto que su aliento le rozaba los ojos, y su voz cantó literalmente al decir -: Te tengo, porque tu me amas y estás por completo a mi merced.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; Love me no more, but love my love of thee.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet..
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
To be noticed is to be loved.
~ Ali Smith
But love was terribly important. She didn't mean romantic love. Generalized sort of love.
~ Ali Smith
It isn't that kind of relationship," Elisabeth says to a lover. "It isn't even the least physical. It never has been. But it's love. I can't pretend it isn't.
~ Ali Smith
He was clearly in love with Amber too, and this time it wasn't the usual water off the back of the duck. Instead, the duck, wounded by a hunter and bewildered because half its head had been shot way, and was still tottering about on its webby feet by the side of the pond. From the one side it looked like a duck usually looks. From the other, it was a different story.
~ Ali Smith
I can remember once sitting opposite my brother and feeling so much love for him that it was almost as though I was knitted to him.
~ Ali Smith