Quotes About Affection

The warmth of him always, even on the coldest of nights, as though his inner furnace burned extravagantly.

There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.

I love you, I'll never stop.

What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

You should find him because he loves you.

She'd loved him as much as he'd let her. More than he'd let her.

There are some people who fall in love over and over.

I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?

Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

What's the occasion? she asked. He kissed her ear. I've got a gorgeous woman who's going to be my bride. She laughed. You have that every night. That's why I want to celebrate.

No matter how it felt to be near him, she had to keep her swollen heart in check.

When we stopped to eat in the midday, she spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time.

Tibby, you are crazy, Carmen said. Those pants are in love with you. They want you for your body and your mind. She couldn't help seeing the pants in a completely new way.

But now he held her. He forgot to worry as much about waking her up. She turned her body to his, eyes closed, and curled herself around him. She pressed her cheek to her chest, and he felt the tickle of her hair in his neck and under his nose. Trust and love went together.

His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him.

She and Effie were already putting on their turtle-and-hare show. Everyone paid lots of attention to Lena at first, because she was striking to look at, but within a few hours or days, they always fully committed their attentions to exuberant, affectionate Effie. Lena felt Effie deserved it. Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

I guess I was better at loving then, too, and also better at being loved. The two go together.

Me quedé pensando que allí donde hay alguien a quien se quiere muchísimo y donde hay alguien que nos quiere de veras, ese sí que es el lugar más bonito del mundo.

Mary watched her fondly. 'My Clive