Quotes About Affection

I didn't like seeing blood on him any more than I liked seeing it on Merrick. It struck me hard how much I loved them both.

I'm 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 so simple to smile at him; he deserved one's tenderest smile.

He turned as I entered the room, and I took him in my arms. With him, I could give vent to the affection I'd held so severely in check with Merrick. I held him to myself and kissed him as men might do with other men when they are alone. I kissed his dark black hair and kissed his eyes, and then I kissed his lips.

I was careless, I was all too softened by human emotion. I was too greedy for love.

He looked rather radiant in his rapture with her, and she was beaming back.

Nunca en mi vida he dejado de amar a nadie que haya querido.

Had I ever loved anyone more than I loved him? Had I ever revealed more of my soul to anyone than I revealed to him?

I entrusted myself to his arms, I opened my lips to his, I bowed my head to press my face to his chest, and as I listened to his beating heart, I breathed deep, as if the very air had been denied to me until that moment.

Walter and I are very fond of some children, but not across the board, not as a species. No

And there was nothing left between them but love, neither pure nor simple, but love it was.

I want to wake up with you in the morning, I want to fight with you in the afternoon, and I want to make love on any and every available surface in this place. And then I want to do it all over again. Come upstairs with me, Sophie. I'll keep you warm. I'll keep the darkness away.

He's a dope. She's crazy about him, he's in love with her, and yet he's being all noble and leaving her. He's a fathead.

Abby had a little trick that she used any time Red acted like a cranky old codger. She reminded herself of the day she had fallen in love with him.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them-an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them—an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her. The three little boys were such a clumped-together tangle, always referred to as a single unit, but Abby knew how different each was from the next.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her." ? Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread

Not only had she paid him attention, but she had secretly taken more pleasure in him than in any of the others.

Other people showed love by offering compliments; Abby offered pity. It was not an attractive quality, in her children's opinion.

Seems like you are always loving the people that fly away from you, Ben Joe, and flying away from the people that love you.

She seemed to have fallen in love again. In love with her own husband! The convenience of it pleased her—like finding right in her pantry all the fixings she needed for a new recipe.

There's my downfall, son. I mean with anyone, any one of these lady friends, I just can't resist a person I make happy.

and kisses are a better fate than wisdom —e. e. cummings, "since feeling is first

Instead, she rose a little onto her toes and they kissed again.