Quotes About Affection

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

What a thing friendship is, world without end!

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

We are driven by repressed emotional energy. We live life in reaction to childhood emotional wounds. We keep trying to get the healthy attention and affection, the healthy love and nurturing, the being-enhancing validation and respect and affirmation, that we did not get as children.

Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss.

But to see her was to love her,Love but her, and love forever.Had we never lov'd sae kindly,Had we never lov'd sae blindly,Never met—or never parted—We had ne'er been brokenhearted.

She is a winsome wee thing,She is a handsome wee thing,She is a lo'esome wee thing,This sweet wee wife o' mine.

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;Ae farewell and then forever!

Ae Fond Kiss

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as [love] can do with a single thread.

I do know, however, that men become bigger-hearted and better lovers once they get the suspicion that their mistresses care less about them. When a man believes himself to be the one and only lover in a woman's life, he'll whistle and go his way.

On the eleventh day the vizier was called before the sultan, the charges were repeated, and the sultan watched as the vizier was tied up and thrown to the dogs. Yet when the beasts saw him, they ran up to him with wagging tails. They nibbled affectionately at his shoulders and began playing with him.

It is a deadly but common misperception to believe that by displaying and vaunting your gifts and talents, you are winning the master's affection.

When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, Who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know Of love's austere and lonely offices?

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while...

May we see the sun rise together, shade of my heart.

My heart and fortune, such as they are, already lie at your feet. Faile missed a step, then laughed softly and pressed her cheek against his booted calf. You are too clever for me, she murmured. One day I will dance it for you, and boil the blood in your veins. You already do that, he said, and she laughed again.

He found what he'd hoped to see, the reason why she'd left so quickly. Just outsidee the tent, Lan held her tightly.

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else

You are more precious to me than life. Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

I am thankful to have two friends such as you," she said simply. Birgitte grinned at her as if she had said something silly.