Quotes About Affection

Hatred is the feeling created to protect love.

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

You admire something about another person (intelligence, emotional intelligence, physical appearance, fame, etc.).

Hey girl, I saw the Apostle Paul and he said for you to greet me with a holy kiss.

Since when does love ever diminish as we spread it around? Among humans it usually works the other way. So too in our dealings with the animals we know best.

Love speaks with a false tongue. It kisses you in one ear, then turns with a hiss to bite the other.

Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once. "its just because he likes pink," she told herself.

Sam!" cried Carney. "I'm afraid I lost the flashlight, but…" That was all she said for Sam took her in his arms. Holding her tightly he kissed her muddy face, not once but several times.

And when she went that far in her thoughts it sounded absurd. Was she the same Emily Webster who had been so humble and adoring with Don? Could it be she seriously thought it possible that anyone so desirable as Jed Wakeman could be in love with her? The truth was that she did.

Everything he said seemed complimentary, somehow, although he wasn't gallant in the artificial sense. But plainly he liked her, and she liked him.

That affair with Tony helped my writing," she told Tacy. "I mean, it will when I get around to write. It's good for writers to suffer." Tony dropped in often, teasing and affectionate as ever, and quite unaware of having improved her art.

Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.

Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.

He was the closest thing she had to a pony.

I had always liked him, but it never occurred to me to like him, like him.

Before the Smorgasbord, Noah Price was just a star in my sky...constant, familiar, bright and far above me.

I will always love Snoopy and nothing can stop that

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. He wondered what response they could hope to obtain from him in such manner—if his response was what they wanted.

The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one's own hierarchy of values, then acting accordingly.

He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.

His life was crowded , public and impersonal as a city square. The friend of humanity had no single private friend. People came to him; he came close to no one. He accepted all. His affection was golden, smooth and even, like a great expanse of sand; there was no wind of discrimination to raise dunes; the sands lay still and the sun stood high. ---Toohey.

God, I've missed you! he said, and knew that he had, every day since he'd seen her last and most of all, perhaps on the days when he had not thought of her

I will have no claim to make except that I need you so much. And that I love you. I told you once not to consider it. Now I'll use it as a tin cup.

Love is our response to our highest values—and can be nothing else.