Quotes About Affection

Love... It only serves to make one weak...

You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.

Josh pulls me aside. "Hey, About before, I just... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling over the words a little. Like he's hesitant to say them, now i wish he'd hug me again. And then kiss me. But he doesn't. He just waves and walks off. I sigh. "Hannah, I just... I want you to know if I pause alot when I tell you how special you are I want you to think that I'm... very... very... deep," Finn says

I love you,' I say, and I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.

Because I-I'm someone who wants to kiss you. Be with you." Eli says as if it is obvious, as if I know what is written on his heart.

Because when I first saw you I thought?no, I knew?you were special. Because I still think that every time I look at you. Because I think you're smart and funny and brave. But most of all," he grins at me? "because I like questions.

Oh, and he groped your face. Sounds like true love to me.' 'He didn't grope my face. We were talking. And he also bought me animal crackers. I like them.' 'You also bitched about them not being in the vending machine for a week. Everyone in the building knows you like animal crackers.' 'I don't see you bringing me any.' 'Do you want me to?

I told you we were meant to be," he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now-- Well, now I kiss him.

Each of his son's had been his favorite child.

She always played his song because whenever she saw him, it was like moving into a warm pocket of air.

At the end of the day, he said, "I will take care of you," his voice thick with emotion. She stood before him and nodded. He zipped her coat for her.

It was to be taken seriously, Olive saw this. All love was to be taken seriously, including her own brief love for her doctor. But Betty had kept this love close to her heart for years and years; she had needed it that much. Olive finally said, leaning forward in her chair, "Here's what I think, young lady. I think you're doin' excellent." Then she sat back. What a thing love was. Olive felt it for Betty, even with that bumper sticker on her truck.

am not going to say anything more about this. But I loved him, my father. I did.

Each of his sons had been his favorite child.

oh, what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm ones, that love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn't choose

Bonnie was the central heating of his life." pg. 83

don't know if I believe it or not." I paused. "I don't really know anything." I added, "Except how much I love you and Becka. I know that.

we choose gifts that we ourselves love. The

the way people can love those they barely know, and how abiding that love can be, and also how deep that love can be, even when—as in her own case—it was temporary. She

When a wife is so happy to see her husband, she would like to think he was happy to see her too.

will always—oh, always!—I will always love that woman.

she was glad to see all the butter he used. It was his love for butter she was counting on, hoping that would do him in.

Because I love you, and we don't have much time.

People know exactly who loves them, and how much—