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Quotes About Affection

I am crying-loud and hiccuping, as if I've been holding my breath for a very long time and finally, finally can breathe. You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...
~ Jennifer Niven
When dinner was just about ready, [Mother] would go freshen up, changing clothes and putting on makeup. When one of my sisters once asked her how come she got ready and changed clothes right before dinner, Mom smiled and said, Because my husband is coming home. [Dick Amman]
~ EllynAnne Geisel
I woke up this morning," Gabriel said, "thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don't realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man's usual inclination in the morning.
~ Eloisa James
So I knew then that she loved me; and I therefore loved her. I have always known that I will inevitably fall in love with any woman who loves me.
~ Emile Habiby
All at once, she had fallen into the most extreme wretchedness: that of believing that one is not loved.
~ Émile Zola
Il n'y a pas, dans la campagne de Plassans, un endroit plus ému, plus vibrant de tiédeur, de solitude et d'amour. C'est là où il est exquis d'aimer.
~ Émile Zola
Quand les amoureux s'embrassent sur les joues, c'est qu'ils tâtonnent et cherchent les lèvres.
~ Émile Zola
He still loved her more each day, the way you love at twenty, quite unreasonably, as your capricious heart dictates, just for the joy and the pain of loving.
~ Émile Zola
su cabecita maliciosa y le decía con sonrisa picaresca y confidencial: No me separo de ti. Vamos juntos.
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
Friendships-in-God are not found by seeking friendship, but by seeking God. Those who draw closer to God find such friendships simply burst upon them. These bombshells of intense affection explode without warning in our lives. But they are good surprises.
~ Emilie Griffin
I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
~ Emily Bronte
Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.
~ Emily Bronte
If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.
~ Emily Bronte
I care nothing in comparison with papa. And I'll never -- never--oh, never while I have my senses, do an act or say a word to vex him. I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.
~ Emily Bronte
Pues amo el suelo que pisa y el aire que respira y todo lo que toca y lo que dice. Me gusta su forma de mirar y de comportarse, me gusta todo él de arriba abajo. ¡Ya está!
~ Emily Bronte
You shall not leave me in that temper. I should be miserable all night, and I won't be miserable for you!
~ Emily Bronte
I've known a hundred kinds of love; ?All made the loved one rue; And what is thine that it should prove ?Than other love, more true?
~ Emily Bronte
pull his hair as you go by: I heard him snap his fingers."  Frances pulled his hair heartily, and then went and seated herself on her husband's knee, and there they were, like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour—foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of.  We made ourselves as snug as our means allowed
~ Emily Bronte
I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says.  I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely and altogether.  There now!
~ Emily Bronte
I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
~ Emily Bronte
Le quiero más que a mí misma, Ellen. Lo sé por esto: rezo todas las noches para sobrevivirle, porque prefiero ser yo desgraciada a que lo sea él. Eso me demuestra que le quiero más que a mí misma.
~ Emily Bronte
And believe that your kindness has made me love you deeper than if I deserved your love...
~ Emily Bronte
He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.
~ Emily Bronte
Bem, amo o chão que ele pisa e o ar que o rodeia e tudo quanto ele toca e tudo o que ele diz. Gosto das feições dele e de todas as suas acções;gosto dele todo. Pronto!
~ Emily Bronte