Quotes About Affection

Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing.

Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely.

The stains on the mattress. Like dried flower petals. Not recent. Old love; there's no other kind of love in this room now.

She didn't make the world the way it was, and she had been my mother, and I had loved her and she had loved me.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

the way love feels is always only approximate.

It's an old word, fading now. Dearly did I wish. Dearly did I long for. I loved him dearly.

You say, Do you / love me, do you love me / I answer you: / I stretch your arms out / one to either side, / your head slumps forward.

In the moment just before giving, I am loved.

He wanted me to play Scrabble with him, and kiss him as if I meant it.

How long will you demand I love you?

I knew his hug was acting, but at that moment I didn't care. I really did feel almost as if he was my first boyfriend. It wasn't much, but it was something.

If you are generous with your heart, you have no idea of the depth & breadth of love's reach.

seek for that one person who can love us as we all long to be loved.

You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

Hush, he said. I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.

Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.

I love you...I've always loved you. I've never loved anybody else. I just married Charlie to - to try to hurt you. Oh, Ashley, I love you so much I'd walk every step of the way to Virginia just to be near you! And I'd cook for you and polish your boots and groom your horse - Ashley, say you love me! I'll live on it for the rest of my life!

always save something to fear, even as you save something to love.

Beloved," she whispered, "I am coming home to you.

the blinding beauty that transfigures even the plainest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousandfold.