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Quotes About Affection

He wasn't really boring. She just wasn't in love with him.
~ Robin McKinley
I will miss the horses, said Beauty a little wistfully. Perhaps you will become fond of the goat, said Jeweltongue. Or even the chickens. Does one ever grow fond of chickens? said Beauty dubiously. Perhaps the goat.
~ Robin McKinley
Sir Richard ignored this, staring at Robin, who was staring at his feet. I love her, you see, he said at last, indistinctly. Sir Richard grimaced. A fine way you have of showing it. A fine thing I should love her at all, do you not think? Robin said, looking up.
~ Robin McKinley
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Any chance you get, show people love.
~ Robin S. Sharma
They ran. They stayed warmer that way and running seemed to be the right way to measure their love for Uncle Ben. They wanted to hear their breath, and their feet stamping the ground. They wanted to feel their lungs working, and their hearts.
~ Roddy Doyle
scratches his tummy with the tip of her
~ Rodman Philbrick
Baseball writers develop a great attachment for the Brooklyn club if long exposed
~ Roger Kahn
The main point, it seems to me, is to maintain a life of active risk and affection, while helping the body along the path of decay, remembering always that the value of life does not consist in its length but in its depth.
~ Roger Scruton
Dogs do not judge, and their love is unconditional only because it has no conception of conditions.
~ Roger Scruton
For a moment, I felt that I saw something of pity and a strong love reflected there-and perhaps a touch of humor.
~ Roger Zelazny
Freud to his fiancée: The only thing that makes me suffer is being in a situation where it is impossible for me to prove my love to you Gide: Everything in her behaviour seemed to say: Since he no longer loves me, nothing matters to me. Now, I still loved her, and in fact I had never loved her so much; but it was no longer possible for me to prove it to her. That was much the worst thing of all
~ Roland Barthes
The love story... is the tribute the lover must pay to the world in order to be reconciled with it.
~ Roland Barthes
Its couplets included these lines: "Before no mortal ever knew / A love like mine so tender, true…No joy unmixed my bosom warms / But when my angel's in my arms.
~ Ron Chernow
Oddly, he expressed affection for William Rockefeller, whom he portrayed as solid, laconic, and far more trustworthy than Rogers.
~ Ron Chernow
John "was still her hero after all the years.
~ Ron Chernow
I am profoundly, profoundly thankful that I had anything to do with this affair.
~ Ron Chernow
I'm doing this in love.
~ Ron Chernow
People liked him," Froelich said. "He was OK, I guess." "Is that all?" "That's a compliment, one brother to another.
~ Lee Child
And I wanted that - to come first in somebody's life. Isn't that what we all want?
~ Lee Nichols
I knew you liked him, Henry said. Ever since he tied your tie.
~ Lee Nichols
Oh, if our children actually knew how much we love them, they'd never be able to hit any of these balls, they'd be simply immobilized by the force of it, by the awful force of our love.
~ Lee Smith
As we look at human relationships, what we see is that lovers don't want explanations, but presence. And
~ Lee Strobel
There is no better sound than whom you adore when they are sleepy and pleased
~ Leif Enger