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Quotes About Affection

I did not love less; indeed I loved more. But the weight of love, like that of an arm thrown tenderly across a chest, becomes little by little too heavy to bear.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Ho compreso che il suicidio apparirebbe una prova d'indifferenza, fors'anche di ingratitudine, alla piccola cerchia di amici devoti che mi circondavano: non voglio lasciare al loro affetto questa immagine del suppliziato che digrigna i denti, e non sa sopportare ancora una tortura.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Toda mujer que ama es una pobre inocente.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
You are my blood mate," he says simply, finding my hand and squeezing it with his own. "I would die for you." Gah! A little warning before the touching would be nice. Mainly so I can resist the overwhelming urge to morph into a jiggly pile of Jell-O, thank you very much. "You'd … die… for me?"" I manage to choke out. I've got to lighten the mood here. "Technically aren't you already dead?
~ Mari Mancusi
In the darkness she wrapped her arms around him and pressed herself against his snuggly warmth, a blissful hum in her veins. She was safe and loved, in bed with her man.
~ Marian Keyes
Love is blind, there was no doubt about it.
~ Marian Keyes
Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more?
~ Marian Keyes
Love makes the world go round
~ Marian Keyes
Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.
~ Marian Keyes
Now she smiles as if I'm her favorite chocolate bar. And I love you, Jordan.
~ Marianne Curley
that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.
~ Marianne Williamson
Most men have no idea of the lengths to which a woman will go for love of the depths of our despair when we feel it cut off.
~ Marianne Williamson
Some men know how to love a woman, and some men don't. Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
~ Marianne Williamson
My friend, I assure you, if you have won a true woman's true love, you have a far greater fortune than your millions--a treasure that none can afford to despise.
~ Marie Corelli
Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.
~ Marilyn Manson
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
~ Marilyn Monroe
She knew better than to waste that time. There isn't always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear or brushing his cheek with a dandelion blossom. Somebody who knows when you're being silly, and laughs and laughs. So long as he was little enough to carry, she could hardly bring herself to put him down.
~ Marilynne Robinson
She has watched every moment of your life, almost, and she loves you as God does, to the marrow of your bones.
~ Marilynne Robinson
There was no reason for Doane to tie a ribbon on Marcelle's wrist, and that was why she laughed when he did it, and loved him for it.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Tell my father I wish to be his son.
~ Mario Puzo
Quiero que Mike sepa que fue por negocios —dijo—. Nada personal. Siempre sentí una gran simpatía hacia él.
~ Mario Puzo
Ik was de onbaatzuchtigste, de meest toegewijde van haar minnaars en gelegenheidsvriendjes. De opofferingsgezinde, gezeglijke sukkel.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
En amour il n'est pas de grade, comme dit la chanson.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Sólo los enamorados se abstraen así ?se acercó a él y le revolvió los cabellos?. Baja de la luna, sobrino.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa