Quotes About Affection

His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.

I want eroticism mixed with love, and deep love one does not experience often.

Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can stir me as much as a note from him.

I love you, June, and you know how acutely, how desperately. You know that no one can say or do anything to shake my love. I have taken you into myself, whole. You need have no fear of being unmasked, only loved.

Watch the conqueror well, watch the man or woman who dominates another: he is not the one who loves. The one who loves is the one who is dominated.

They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love.

Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet.

Was it not an act of love to impersonate the loved one?

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

Eu iubesc, iubesc, iubesc.

At night too, she puzzled at the mystery of her desperate need for kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.

It doesn't matter what you said that night. I want you from me to have the experience of being loved.) [Anaïs]

You blush before your tenderness.

I cannot live without love. Love is at the root of my being.

I had a thought tonight that it was to a woman like you I should have been married. Or, is it that love, in the beginning, always inspires such thoughts?

Henry:] Je pense à toi tous le temps.

I love the sharing. I feel with extraordinary vividness your presence, as if you were reading with me. I actually experience again the sensation of my leaning over your shoulder and kissing your hair and neck while you are reading or writing.

I also want you to know that since the moment I set eyes on you—you have brought me nothing but Joy—and I will remember everything about you forever. Have a marvelous time. —Mom.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

Que ton désir soit de l'amour, et que ta possession soit amoureuse.

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

Etre aimé n'est rien, c'est être préféré que je désire.

Pour moi, être aimé n'est rien, c'est être préféré que je désire.