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Quotes About Affection

Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.
~ Amy Gerstler
Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay .
~ Amy Hempel
Tom lifted his other hand and rested it lightly on Reese's slim hip, barely holding on. "I want to kiss you.
~ Amy Jo Cousins
If you really love someone, you want to know what they ate for lunch or dinner without you.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
and his head and shoulders were on the bed next to the boy who had captured his heart like cupped hands would capture a butterfly, and had never, ever clutched him too tight and never let him go.
~ Amy Lane
I will love you forever," I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead. I will hold you to that." His face was grim and his voice was sober—he touched my handprint of chaos as he said it, and I knew in my bones that it was a solemn vow, and not a sweet or a kind offering of love at all. Green would make me live if he had to crack the foundations of the world.
~ Amy Lane
You're my friend," Chris whispered back, and his other hand came up so he could rub Xander's lower lip with his thumb. "That makes you beautiful.
~ Amy Lane
The whole world heard you tell poor Angie Robinson that "Chris Edwards was your heart"—man, it's one of the most fucking romantic things I've ever heard.
~ Amy Lane
That smile, right there?" "Yeah?" "I've known you my entire life. You only smile like that for me.
~ Amy Lane
I lowered my mouth to his ear and said, "I think you're my everything.
~ Amy Lane
Being loved can do marvelous things for a man.
~ Amy Lane
A kiss is good. I think kisses are where all good things start.
~ Amy Lane
I love you, McKay. I love you so much it would kill me not to try.
~ Amy Lane
Wanted you since before I knew you",he said softly. "You think I knit for just anyone?
~ Amy Lane
if I was gay, I'd… I'd be mesmerized by you. I'd listen to every word that fell out of your mouth like it was diamonds made of sound waves. I'd memorize the pattern of freckles on your back and spend months taking cooking classes just to find something you'd eat. You are kind, and you are funny, and you are brave, and any man who has you needs to see all that or he just isn't worth the laces in your combat boots, you hear me
~ Amy Lane
It was the same smile he used in bed with Crick--the gentle, sweet smile that made him look young and a little vulnerable. Crick turned the picture around, and Benny had written, I asked him to think of you.
~ Amy Lane
I will always take you home," he whispered, and Will framed his face with both hands and kissed him again.
~ Amy Lane
Surprisingly, their next kiss generated some heat, and the next, and the next, because touching Will without heat, without tenderness, without heart, turned out to be something Kenny absolutely could not do.
~ Amy Lane
It was... it was like all the girls I was with. They were fun, and I liked their company, but their touch didn't... didn't make anything get warm. Didn't make it pop or zing or ache." The hand moved up to Talker's neck, so that his pulse throbbed against Brian's palm. "Didn't make me feel any of the things I feel when you touch me or smile or... you know, sing in the shower or leave your shoes in the hallway or have conversations with the rat when you think I can't hear you.
~ Amy Lane
I will love you for as long as we live. And I will love you if this is as close as we ever get.
~ Amy Lane
WALL•E—the hapless knight in rusted armor. Except WALL•E had eventually been very important to the object of his affection, hadn't he?
~ Amy Lane
Taylor wanted it back, wanted a lover's touch on his body, wanted more. Wanted to open himself up to somebody who wouldn't hurt him, who would take care of him, who would catch him after he came apart.
~ Amy Lane
This house was made for family members to come inside and love each other.
~ Amy Lane
Jonah kissed him with an open mouth and a full heart and tried to tell him with his bare body that sometimes you didn't have to break. Sometimes being human was strong enough. Ethan breathed through him and then took over the kiss, rolling over, giving Jonah shelter from the chill in the room and the sudden somberness between them.
~ Amy Lane