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Quotes About Affection

Still, he loved her. She knew that. He loved her the best way he could. But she wasn't sure that was enough anymore.
~ Ann Hood
I know your face by touch when it's dark, I know the profile of your sleeping face, the sound of you sleeping.
~ Ann Hood
There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.
~ Ann Lamott
Si chinò per accarezzarmi. Fece scorrere la mano lungo la schiena e poi sotto al mento. «Ogni cane dovrebbe iniziare la giornata con una bella grattatina sotto il mento» dichiarò. Spostò la mano sopra la testa. «Posso accarezzarti qui?» mi chiese. «Sulla testa? So che non piace a tutti i cani». Rimasi immobile, e chiusi gli occhi. «Socchiudi gli occhi!» esclamò Susan. «Ottimo segno».
~ Ann M. Martin
There are several other members of my family — but they're not people. We've got a puppy named Shannon — she's a Bernese mountain dog, and she's going to be huge some day. And Boo-Boo is Watson's cat. He's old and fat and kind of mean — but he's still part of the family. Plus, Karen and Andrew have two goldfish, Crystal Light the Second and Goldfishie.
~ Ann M. Martin
He loves me, he loves me not
~ Ann M. Martin
I looked at Andrew and at Nannie. I loved them and the rest of my family very much. I loved my friends too. For now that was enough love for me.
~ Ann M. Martin
love with a big blue frog. A big blue frog loves me. It's not as bad as it may seem. He wears glasses and he's six foot three. Oh —
~ Ann M. Martin
Taylor beamed at Suzi. "Hey! You're my sister!" "Mine
~ Ann M. Martin
Is it too soon to say I love you?" "Yes. No." "Soonish I will say that I love you." "And in the meantime?" "I will merely love you.
~ Sam Lipsyte
So you are my older sister," said Idris, and felt a deep, true joy.
~ Sam Llewellyn
A guy should make the woman he is dating feel different and more special than anyone else in his life
~ Samantha Daniels
Gaam's room was decorated in accordance with the Shanti-Joddhist Principles of Harmony. On entry, he was welcomed with great affection by his dog, Queeen, who had been called Queen before Gaam discovered numerology.
~ Samit Basu
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
~ Samuel Johnson
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
~ Samuel Johnson
Unless a Woman has an Amorous Heart, She is a Dull Companion.
~ Samuel Johnson
Some men there are love not a gaping pig;Some that are mad if they behold a cat;And others, when the bag-pipe sings i' th' nose,Cannot contain their urine, for affection.Shakesp.Merchant of Venice.2. Passion
~ Samuel Johnson
State of the mind, in general. There grows,In my most ill compos'd affection, such  A stanchless avarice, that, were I king,I should cut off the nobles for their lands.Shak.Macbeth. The man that hath no musick in himself,Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds,Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;The motions of his spirit are dull as night,And his affections dark as Erebus:Let no such man be trusted.Shakesp.Merchant of Venice.6. Quality;
~ Samuel Johnson
Affection is the lively representment of any passion whatsoever, as if the figures stood not upon a cloth or board, but as if they were acting upon a stage.Wotton'sArchitecture.
~ Samuel Johnson
ALDERLIEVEST  (ALDERLI'EVEST)   adj. superl.[from ald, alder, old, elder, and lieve, dear, beloved.]Most beloved; which has held the longest possession of the heart. The mutual conference that my mind hath had,By day, by night, waking, and in my dreams,In courtly company, or at my beads,With you, mine alderlievest sovereign;Makes me the bolder to salute my kingWith ruder terms.Shakesp.Henry VI. p.
~ Samuel Johnson
Her three brothers preferred her interests to their own. Her father used to call her, The pride of his life; her mother, Her other self; her own Clementina. [CLEMENTINA! — Ah! Lucy, what a pretty name is Clementina!]
~ Samuel Richardson
Is not friendship the basis of my Love?
~ Samuel Richardson
Mr. Somner is a young gentleman lately married; very affected, and very opinionated. I told Mrs. Reeves, after he was gone, that I believed he was a dear Lover of his person; and she owned he was.  Yet had he no great reason for it.
~ Samuel Richardson
do not easily dislike, Sir; but then I do not easily like. And I never will marry any man, to whom I cannot be more than indifferent.
~ Samuel Richardson