Quotes About Affection

though he [Michael Faraday] took no cities, he captivated all hearts.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Be safe out there and don't do anything too crazy. I can't afford to lose you." ?"That might just be the nicest thing you've ever said to me," Christina replied. "I feel like I should . . . ask for a raise or something." ?Dulain grinned. "I might afford to lose you at that point.

I had love once in the palm of my hand. See the lines there. — John Wieners, from "A Poem for Painters," Selected poems, 1958-1984 (Black Sparrow Books, 1986)

In many parts of Greece it is considered as a sort of punishment after death, for some heinous crime committed whilst in existence, that the deceased is not only doomed to vampyrise, but compelled to confine his infernal visitations solely to those beings he loved most while upon earth—those to whom he was bound by ties of kindred and affection.—A supposition alluded to in the "Giaour.

She turned to him and pulled her lips in what he knew must be a smile. "Not at all. I'm having a lovely time. Really.

It's love, Mr. Stoner," Sloane said cheerfully. "You are in love. It's as simple as that.

One evening, near the end of the time they had together, Katherine said quietly, almost absently, "Bill, if we never have anything else, we will have had this week. Does that sound like a girlish thing to say?" "It doesn't matter what it sounds like," Stoner said. He nodded. "It's true." "Then I'll say it," Katherine said. "We will have had this week.

Suddenly Sloane seemed very distant, and the walls of the office receded. Stoner felt himself suspended in the wide air, and he heard his voice ask, "Are you sure?" "I'm sure," Sloane said softly. "How can you tell? How can you be sure?" "It's love, Mr. Stoner," Sloane said cheerfully. "You are in love. It's as simple as that.

It takes being in love to learn something about yourself.

Nearly every afternoon, when his classes were over, he came to her apartment. They made love, and talked, and made love again, like children who did not think of tiring at their play. The spring days lengthened, and they looked forward to the summer.

Nikolas was the conscious decision of his heart.

I don't think you're entirely understanding how this boyfriend thing works, Ben. Denying me in the shower, it's very hurtful." "You do realize I can actually hear the air quotes when you say boyfriend.

Hello Benjamin." Ben grinned privately. He always loved the way Nikolas greeted him. It seemed to say more than it actually did.

Nikolas was his Morning Star and nothing Nikolas now said or did could lessen the brilliance of his fallen grace.

She loved me, my daughter! Even knowing this, I was surprised. In truth, I was amazed.

I have no memory of my mother ever kissing me.

Being only out of sight, you remember, not lost, nor asleep, nor annihilated, he goes on loving. To love must mean to think of, to care for, to hope for, to pray for, not less out of a body than it.

I laid my head upon her shoulder, and could hardly speak for the comfort that she gave me.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa.

I cannot think why you love me,' he said, as all lovers say; but with more anxiety in his voice than is usual. 'Oh, I am nothing without you,' she said. 'I should not know what to be. I feel as if you had invented me. I watch you inventing me, week after week

You have only to hear my heartbeat to know that each beat is for you.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.