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Quotes About Affection

Well, I said finally, knowing he was waiting, you make me laugh. He nodded. And? You're pretty good-looking. Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful. You want to be beautiful? I asked him. Are you saying I'm not?
~ Sarah Dessen
You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
~ Sarah Dessen
And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
~ Sarah Dessen
There were lots of ways to love someone, I guessed, both by remembering and forgetting.
~ Sarah Dessen
Dogs and children loved my boyfriend. It was a simple fact.
~ Sarah Dessen
But sometimes I longed for that sense of someone pulling me close, feeling another heartbeat against mine.
~ Sarah Dessen
Each time I thought I'd felt all I could for him, there was more.
~ Sarah Dessen
The big moments with Ethan weren't, well, big. Instead, it was these tiny increments and gestures that I clung to in order to hold on to him.
~ Sarah Dessen
Whatever you need, I will find a way to get it to you. I will give you the moon, and more.
~ Sarah Dessen
Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's like, part of you for good
~ Sarah Dessen
Suddenly, I had a flash of him in the car that day, drawing in his breath. Plus the staring at lunch in the green, and the weird way he'd acted at the Vista 10. Oh, God, I thought, finally getting it. Nate was right. He liked me. This was just what I needed.
~ Sarah Dessen
The butter trick also works as you establish a bond between your baby and your puppy when the puppy settles down. Dab some butter on your baby's foot or booty and say kisses.
~ Sarah Hodgson
I love you as much as the ocean kisses the shore no matter how many times it is sent away.
~ Sarah Kay
If loving you means getting dirty, bring on the grime.
~ Sarah Kay
She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly killed him. She had no idea how lovable she was. How precious and brave and special.
~ Sarah Mayberry
Jonah makes sure to sit next to Jack, gazing up at him admiringly.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Am I actually smiling at Penny? I am. I am smiling at Penny.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Is Jonah blushing? Yes! His cheeks are pink. I can practically see cartoon hearts shooting out of his scrawny chest as he sneaks another peek at Lali. I think Jonah has his first crush! "Dadi
~ Sarah Mlynowski
This is a sappy way to put it, but the Winthrop who warns Williams is the Winthrop I fell in love with, the Winthrop Cotton Mather celebrates for sharing his firewood with the needy, the Winthrop who scolds Thomas Dudley for overcharging the poor, the Winthrop of 'Christian Charity,' who called for 'enlargement toward others' and 'brotherly affection,' admonishing that 'if thy brother be in want and thou canst help him...if thou lovest God thou must help him.
~ Sarah Vowell
The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave," he wrote. "It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
~ Sarah Vowell
Never underestimate the corrective lens that is sentimentality.
~ Sarah Vowell
What use was war without also love?
~ Saul Bellow
Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?
~ Saul Bellow
Affable! His own son, his one and only son, could not speak his mind or ease his heart to him.
~ Saul Bellow