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Quotes About Affection

O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret - as you would think of some one dead you have loved. I shall never forget her.... Pass the bottle.
~ Joseph Conrad
Mr Verloc extended as much recognition to Stevie as a man not particularly fond of animals may give to his wife's beloved cat; and this recognition, benevolent and perfunctory, was essentially of the same quality. 
~ Joseph Conrad
O youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! To me she was not an old rattle-trap carting about the world a lot of coal for a freight--to me she was the endeavour, the test, the trial of life. I think of her with pleasure, with affection, with regret--as you would think of someone dead you have loved. I shall never forget her. . . . Pass the bottle.
~ Joseph Conrad
Give them all of my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.
~ Joseph Conrad
wasn't like today, when if you don't tell your kid you love him every twenty minutes you could go to jail for child abuse.
~ Joseph Epstein
She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. In the last analysis, that was all it took to win her heart - a good night's sleep.
~ Joseph Heller
It was love at first sight.
~ Joseph Heller
I close. We are not we must not be aliens or enemies but fellow countrymen and brethren. Although passion has strained our bonds of affection too hardly they must not I am sure they will not be broken. The mystic chords of memory which proceeding from so many battle fields and so many patriot graves pass through all the hearts and all the hearths in this broad continent of ours will yet again harmonize in their ancient music when breathed upon by the guardian angel of the nation.   Lincoln
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!
~ Joss Whedon
Marianne laughed. But you can't disappoint me! I don't love you.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Love you in that cheerleader's costume. Last Friday. You didn't see me I guess. But I was there.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
What've I got to do, to prove how much I love you? Blow us all away?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The only love that matters is the absolute unreasonable unqualified and unearned love - the love you'd absorbed into the very pores of your being as a child, scarcely aware of your good fortune.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Tu castigo si eres mujer. Que no te amen lo suficiente.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She was murmuring, "It's all right, dear, it will be all right, I love you." For that was the one thing she knew, amid all that she didn't.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The curse of the female, to so badly need love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
papà ci amava. Ci ama. Diceva che, se non ci avesse voluto bene, non ci avrebbe punite. Riesco a capirlo, davvero. Però è un modo di pensare malato, e sbagliato".
~ Joyce Carol Oates
What saved us from becoming hard-nosed or callous was that we really liked each other, while remaining totally mystified by each other.
~ Joyce Elbert
She was in love with love.
~ Joyce Maynard
The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
~ Joyce Maynard
Daughters, he told her as they dug. Nothing better than a good daughter.
~ Joyce Maynard
concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.
~ Joyce Meyer
With a quick jerk, Qhuinn wrapped his arms around the single most important person in his life. It was not Layla, although he felt a pang at that denial. It was not John, or his king. It wasn't the brothers. This male was the reason for everything.
~ jr ward
Rhage! She laughed some more. You brought me out here just to- He started kissing her mouth and putting his hands around her waist. Outcome Engineer. You knew it when you mated me ~ Rhage & Mary 'The Shadows' Page 446
~ jr ward