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Quotes About Affection

The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them
~ Kevin Heath
Dear Valentine, I have thought of you often. Not all the time, but often.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
~ Leonard Maltin
The more time I spent with him, the more I knew the feelings weren't going away.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.
~ C.C. Hunter
When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul.
~ Dornford Yates
I was motivating him every time. When it was break point I was telling him 'hit a good return because you know you are gonna get many more kisses' [on Jamie Murray
~ Jelena Jankovic
I have crushes on women all the time.
~ Adam Lambert
Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
~ Edmund Waller
Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.
~ Jean Craighead George
We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
~ Veronica Roth
Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.
~ Bob Dylan
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
~ Margery Williams Bianco
It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most.
~ Marguerite Duras
You give me a great desire to love.
~ Marguerite Duras
Et puis il le lui avait dit. Il lui avait dit que c'était comme avant, qu'il l'aimait encore, qu'il ne pourrait jamais cesser de l'aimer, qu'il l'aimerait jusqu'à sa mort.
~ Marguerite Duras
Avant et maintenant c'est l'amour entre toi et moi. Ce sera ce que tu voudrais, toi, que tu sois.
~ Marguerite Duras
Ça a toujours été trop tard pour ne plus vous aimer.
~ Marguerite Duras
Ma poi glielo aveva detto. Le aveva detto che era come prima, che l'amava ancora, che non avrebbe potuto mai smettere d'amarla, che l'avrebbe amata fino alla morte.
~ Marguerite Duras
I don't know if love's a feeling. Sometimes I think it's a matter of seeing. Seeing you.
~ Marguerite Duras
Kisses on the body bring tears. Almost like a consolation. At home I don't cry. But that day in that room, tears console both for the past and for the future. I tell him one day I'll leave my mother, one day even for my mother I'll have no love left. I weep. He lays his head on me and weeps to see me weep.
~ Marguerite Duras
it was a common dictum among both Scholastic and mystical theologians that whereas the intellect receives its object according to its own measure, love dilates to the measure of its object. As a corollary, some taught that affection leaves understanding wholly behind in mystical union with God, others that the will draws understanding after it into divine union, or that "love itself is knowledge.
~ Marguerite Porete
Reason: Ah, Love, says Reason, when are such Souls in the true freedom of Pure Love? Love: When they have no longing, no feeling, and at no time any affection of the spirit; for such customs would enslave them, being too far away from the peace of freedom in which few men permit themselves to dwell. And also they do nothing, says Love, which is opposed to the peace of their inner being, and so in peace they bear the orders of Love.
~ Marguerite Porete
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar