Quotes About Affection

At seven-thirty we too closed the door behind us; Moortje, my cat, was the only living creature I said good-bye to.

Ik voel als ik eraan denk, vandaag nog zijn wang tegen de mijne met dat heerlijke gevoel dat alles goed maakt

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people.

There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection.

If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.

There is no need to shove, his duchess said snippily. There is every need. Think of it not as shoving, but an affectionate nudge.

Sam said to me the other day, I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops, and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel.

Yet union with a partner—someone with whom to wake, whom you love, and talk with on and off all day, and sit with at dinner, and watch TV and movies with, and read together in bed with, and do hard tasks with, and are loved by. That sounds really lovely.

When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)

He's your friend that you get to sleep with and wake up with. That's what married life is at its most basic. A friend, your teammate, a person you trust and look forward to talking to, about anything. Someone who seems to really, really like you, who you like too.

God loves you crazily, like I love you, Rae said, like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.

Hello, Dearest. I'm so glad it's you!" I've come to believe that this is how God feels when I pray, even at my least attractive.

One longs to explain, to be sure they understand, the people one loves.

You know they were never apart? He loved her so much he never grew tired of watching her, listening to her, hearing her laugh. He still found her just as fascinating, after twelve years.

He was also inordinately fond of cats.

But do not confuse romance with love. I know how to love." She stood up. "I fear your romance is largely an indulgence, and indulgence is selfishness and has to be paid for.

that not what love is—an enlargement of the best and a healing over of the worst?

When you are in love, there is not much that hurts as deeply as rejection.

Charlotte believed that the truth lay between, that having satisfied the requirements of family in particular and society at large by marrying once, she now had no desire to commit herself again unless it were for genuine affection—which apparently had not yet occurred.

She flushed hot to remember how utterly she had given herself to him in that one consuming kiss. All her heart and mind and will had been in it, all the things she could never ever have said to him.

I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.' It was my turn to laugh.

So until we meet again, I am thinking of you always; I love you; I wish you were here...in my arms.

It's not so, I said. And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?