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Quotes About Affection

Reading next to you is one of my favorite things.
~ Shannon Stacey
Of course I care. You're my big sister. I may act like a pain in the butt sometimes, but I actually like you. Pissing you off is just a hobby with me. [pp. 109]
~ Shari Maurer
I was just telling your cousin I thought you were sick," she said to René. "Why, exactly, aren't you sick?" "Such a darling," René said to the room. "And so considerate of my health. You'd have me abed all day, wouldn't you, my love?" "Always," she replied slowly, "my love." Though the look she sent clearly added her preference that he be in an unconscious or perhaps a non-breathing state.
~ Sharon Cameron
You are the single most beautiful thing I have ever looked at in my life.
~ Sharon Cameron
I think you are very beautiful," René said, "especially when you are admiring mischief." "You must think that every time I look at you, then." He gave her all of his grin. "You admire me, Mademoiselle?
~ Sharon Cameron
It was time to go. But René didn't move. Instead he lifted the hand that still held his and kissed it, holding it close against his lips before he let it go.
~ Sharon Cameron
how can you love a little cat so much in such a short short time?
~ Sharon Creech
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
~ Sharon Gillenwater
Sometimes the words didn't have to be said to know love was real.
~ Sharon Gillenwater
I should like to freeze in time all those I do love...Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Stella's father hesitated. "Georgia supports me, but she was a mite trembly this morning. I brought Stella though."He squeezed her shoulders affectionately. "I don't want to just tell her about bravery--I want to show her what it looks like.
~ Sharon M. Draper
My parents have always blanketed me with conversation.
~ Sharon M. Draper
In his gaze, rooms of the dead; halls of loss; fog- emerald; driven, dirty-rice snow: he was in there somewhere, I looked for him, and he gave me the gift, he let me in, knowing he would never once, in this world or in any other, have to do it again, and I saw him, not as he really was, I was still without the strength of anger, but I saw him see me, even now that dropping down into trust's affection in his gaze, and I held it, some seconds, quiet, and I said, Good-bye, and he said Good-bye
~ Sharon Olds
and not to have lost him when he loved me, and not to have lost someone who could have loved me for life.
~ Sharon Olds
I think he loved being loved
~ Sharon Olds
and I could tell her the best of my poor, partial love, I could sing her out, with it, I saw the luck and the luxury of that hour.
~ Sharon Olds
and some young men loved them the way one would want, oneself, to be loved.
~ Sharon Olds
But don't you want that?" [Corene] asked, and even she could hear the wistfulness in her voice. "Love? Someone who waits for you at the door, someone whose day isn't complete unless she sees your face? Someone who will love you even when you're angry, even when you're ugly, even when you don't love yourself? Doesn't everybody want that?
~ Sharon Shinn
Well, that's the lesson, I suppose," Zoe said. "We can never predict who will love us or where we'll feel love in return.
~ Sharon Shinn
Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.
~ Sharon Shinn
My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.
~ Sharon Shinn
my mom always love me forever and my dad always love me forever
~ Shaun Johnson
The more we understand the men in our lives, the better we can support and love them in the way they need to be loved.
~ Shaunti Feldhahn
It was the highest praise I could expect, and I felt grateful though I longed for him to say he loved me too.
~ Shawna Yang Ryan