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Quotes About Affection

He flattened it out. On it was written, in a large unformed handwriting: I love you.
~ George Orwell
Le parfum de l'âme, c'est le souvenir. C'est la partie la plus délicate, la plus suave du coeur, qui se détache pour embrasser un autre coeur et le suivre partout. L'affection d'un absent n'est plus qu'un parfum, mais qu'il est doux.
~ George Sand
Quoique paysan et simple laboureur, Germain s'était rendu compte de ses devoirs et de ses affections.
~ George Sand
let us never trouble ourselves to explain why people love us, but how they love us. Happy the man who can be loved, no matter for what reason!
~ George Sand
If you do not cease loving me, you will see me, you will feel me, you will hear me everywhere. My form will be before your eyes because it will remain engraved on your mind; my voice will echo in your ear because it will remain in your heart's memory: my spirit will again reveal itself to your spirit because your soul understands me and knows me completely.
~ George Sand
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
~ George Sand
and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever--
~ George Saunders
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only
~ George Saunders
They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever—
~ George Saunders
And then she kissed me with a kiss I can only describe as melting
~ George Saunders
They were sorry, they were saying with their bodies, they were accepting each other back, and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever—
~ George Saunders
and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone's affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing had just manifested in you, that was the deepest, dearest thing he'd ever—
~ George Saunders
We were all over each other in the super-friendly way of puppies, or spouses meeting for the first time after one of them has undergone a close brush with death.
~ George Saunders
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.
~ George Saunders
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only there is nothing left to do.
~ George Saunders
I was falling hard for Laura. I was not much of a cat person, but I knew our relationship was solid when I bonded with her black-and-white shorthair, Dewey, named for the decimal system.
~ George W. Bush
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough
~ George Washington
The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest.
~ George Washington
Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes, he said with gentle reproach. Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.
~ Georgette Heyer
You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.
~ Georgette Heyer
No, no, Kit, don't cry!' begged Freddy, putting his arm round her. 'Can't bear you not to be happy! I won't say another word. Never thought there was any hope for me. Just wanted to tell you.
~ Georgette Heyer
I wish you did return my regard, he said. More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!
~ Georgette Heyer
I'm not talking nonsense, lass. I'd give you the whole of the moon if I could, and throw in the stars for good measure,' he said, taking her hand, and kissing it. 'You couldn't be content with less?
~ Georgette Heyer
Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.' Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.
~ Georgette Heyer