Quotes About Affection

Abby," he murmured, lifting a hand to curve around her neck. "I love you." A sob slipped free and she wrapped her arms around his waist. One of his hands cupped the back of her neck and cuddled her in close. As he bent around her, he whispered, "I've loved you so long, I can't remember what it's like to not love you. And I'll go to my grave loving you. You're my everything.

Tipping her head, she stared into his tawny, hazel eyes, so intense, so burning-hot and all-consuming. Had she ever had a man look at her like that? Like she was all? Like she was everything? The center of his universe? Hell, screw the center … Law was looking at her like she was his universe.

That he had loved [her] more, and far more, than he had cared for anyone else gave her stature[.]

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

You stole my heart the day we met, and I've never asked for it back.

Having realized that her affection for Sinclair went far beyond friendship, there was only one thing for her to do. She took off her hat and banged her head against the nearest lamppost. Also realizing she was drawing attention from passerby, she put her hat back on and resumed walking.

You can be friendly with someone without being friends. And you can be close friends without being friendly. Anyway, that's my opinion. I'm not asking you what you think.

We both loved each other. But we never spoke of it. Kept it to ourselves. So passed our best years.

I know you're looking at me and thinking: he's a woman at heart. For if he weren't he wouldn't love children so much.

What I am at heart, I don't know. But I do know that I love children. That's a fact.

If you had to remind someone you loved that it was your birthday, then it was futile.

A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

We are never so vulnerable as when we love, and never so hopelessly unhappy as when we lose the object of our love.

And I will go on kissing you till you are strong and gay and happy — and if they haven't died, they are still alive today.

Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.

They hold each other tightly for a few moments as the dog, a miniature dachshund, barks and leaps at them.

Love had always been behind her toil with earthly matters. Erlend had never given her much thanks for that; it was not the way he wanted to be loved. But she couldn't help it; it was her nature to love with great toil and care.

No American, so far as I am aware, ever professed a deep and unsullied affection for the USGS topographical sheets that it is possible to order from the government agencies. They are fine enough maps, and they cover the entirety of the nation. But seldom are they bought for the sheer pleasure of ownership, of the ability to pore over them and imagine, or remember, to draw contented admiration at their elegant appearance and scrupulous accuracy.

I tried to love you less.I couldn't.

Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

I haven't abandoned you, my little ally, my heart. I kiss you with all my soul.