Quotes About Affection

Suddenly I realized she was asleep. Exhausted by her flight she had fallen asleep against my shoulder as so many times, in taxis, in buses, on a park-seat. I sat still and let her be. There was nothing to disturb her in the dark church. The candles napped around the virgin, and there was nobody else there. The slowly growing pain in my upper arm where her weight lay was the greatest pleasure I had ever known.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

There's nothing discreditable about jealousy, Mr Bendrix. I always salute it as the mark of true love.

I think I have always liked my fellow men. Liking is a great deal safer than love. It doesn't demand victims. Who is your victim, Querry?

One is apt to be unfair to somebody one has loved a great deal.

But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.

I love you. I am your father and I love you. Try to understand that.

Every child was born with some kind of knowledge of love, he thought; they took it with the milk at the breast: but on parents and friends depended the kind of love they knew - the saving one or the damning kind. Lust too was a kind of love.

Love dies, affection and habit win the day.

Some people feed you with love," Tara said, "and some people love you with food.

Not all of it was done by soldiers, or by men. She'd shut her eyes and run her fingers over Jack's shoulders, down his spine, as a blind person might seek to recognise the shape of something. The shape—the ache in her own flesh—of her love for him.

It is no crime. I once felt affection for a Warrior-Servant as I hunted his ships and destroyed his fighters. No lover ever felt my attentions so fiercely.

He's just not that into you.

When a guy is into you, he let's you know it.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children, because they're more certain they are their own.

A guy can love a million women. But a man, a man loves one woman a million ways.

I think as a kid I depended on her, her being my mom, I don't think I ever thought I had any other options but to live with her. As an adult I kick myself for not doing something to help myself back then. My mother could show affection and say kind words when she wanted to . . . she would abuse me, then the very next day hug me or tell me how I was her baby and she loved me blah, blah. I think it worked like any abusive relationship

the woman he alternately loved and tolerated.

I love her so much that it hurts sometimes. People who don't have a dog can't know how it feels, just like those who don't have children can't understand that kind of love. They aren't the same, of course. But both are real.

God could not possibly love us more than he actually does, and we could not matter more to God than we actually do.

We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.

A man must love his bear.

Loyalty is something you need for things you don't love enough. When you love enough, loyalty isn't even a question.

Non diventi uomo finché non doni il tuo amore sincero e disinteressato ad un bambino. Ma non sei un vero uomo finché non ricevi in cambio l'amore sincero e disinteressato di un bambino.