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Quotes About Affection

CHAPTER VI NOT IN LOVE
~ Anthony Trollope
Hate is difficult and expensive, and between individuals soon gives place to love.
~ Anthony Trollope
She had known his faults and weaknesses, and was probably aware that he was inferior to herself in character and intellect. But, nevertheless, she had loved him. To her he had been, though not heroic, sufficiently a man to win her heart. He was a gentleman, pleasant-mannered, pleasant to look at, pleasant to talk to, not educated in the high sense of the word, but never making himself ridiculous by ignorance.
~ Anthony Trollope
That's what we call flirting." "Just the reverse. Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. This playing at caring has none of the excitement, but it often leads to the result, and sometimes ends in downright affection.
~ Anthony Trollope
One does not like to have one's little offerings of sentimental service turned into burlesque when one is in love in earnest.
~ Anthony Trollope
Beatrice was Mary's friend, and many heart-burnings and much mental solicitude did that young lady give to her mother by indulging in such a friendship. But Beatrice, with some faults, was true at heart, and she persisted in loving Mary Thorne in spite of the hints which her mother so frequently gave as to the impropriety of such an affection.
~ Anthony Trollope
A girl almost always likes a man who is in love with her,—unless indeed she positively dislikes him.
~ Anthony Trollope
The outward show of it was there to perfection, — so that the Fawn girls really believed that their brother had written an affectionate lover's letter. Inwardly, Lizzie swore to herself, as she read the cold words with indignation, that the man should not escape her
~ Anthony Trollope
you're in my blood, in my bones, and in my heart there is naught but you.
~ Anya Seton
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~ Aristotle
No one loves the man whom he fears
~ Aristotle
Le début de l'amour, c'est toujours lorsque non seulement on est heureux de la présence de la personne qu'on chérit, mais qu'on l'aime rien que de souvenir, quand elle est absente.
~ Aristotle
And I'd like Ben there, of course, cuddling me into the void with the usual sweet assurances.
~ Armistead Maupin
To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me.
~ Arnold Bennett
Could we go into your room? she asked. I knew it. I knew it, he said, spinning around and sliding quickly toward his door. It's finally happend, just like in dreams. An intelligent, beautiful woman is going to declare her undying affection
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Norton tightened his arms around her. One of the nicest things about weightlessness, he often thought, was that you could really hold someone all night, without cutting off the circulation. There were those who claimed that love at one gee was so ponderous that they could no longer enjoy it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other… So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My sympathies and my love went out to her, even as my hand had in the garden. I felt that years of the conventionalities of life could not teach me to know her sweet, brave nature as had this one day of strange experiences. Yet there were two thoughts which sealed the words of affection upon my lips. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. Worst still, she was rich.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Yo también te quiero, Sunshine. Gracias por tu fuerza y por dejar los productos de soja.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You trusted me and that I would never betray. Trust, much like a woman's love and affection, and brotherly friendship, is a sacred thing, and should never be lightly given nor abused nor taken for granted.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
For the first time, I comprehended that love, at least for me, had nothing to do with sex.
~ Sherwood Smith