Quotes About Affection

To be able to say I love you, one has to be able to say I

She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent over, holding his hand, not raising it from his knee, and she pressed her lips to his hand. Her hat fell off, he saw the blond head at his knees, he felt her mouth kissing his hand again and again. His fingers held hers, answering, but that was the only answer.

What matters is how well we have loved.

Oh, how earnest I was then—how fierce and humorless! When I look back on my journal entries from this time, I feel a great affection for the young man that I was, aching to make a mark on the world, wanting to be a part of something grand and idealistic, which evidence seemed to indicate did not exist.

I wanted to kiss Tom at that moment, but I kissed Michelle instead.

I've never been good at letting people in, but somehow you're here, and I'm glad.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Love-charms were easily manufactured anyway: you just wrapped a piece of paper bearing the words "I love you" around ten or twelve gold pieces, and there you were. In an emergency you could dispense with the paper.

Love weighs nothing.

You can't replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you're not going to run out of people to love.

You knew me well enough to find me here,' she said. And his scent burst onto her brain like a rain of lights, and his voice reached across the distance without words: 'I've always known you that well.' He wrapped her in his softness, touched her face with the movement of trees and the odor of wild water over stones, dissolving her need in the confidence of his embrace.

I found the right (Valentine) card to send her. On the cover there were hearts, and it said, Here's hoping you'll soon have something big and strong around the house to open those tight jar lids. Inside was a picture of a pipe wrench.

But from here on in I'm your Ma, and that means I love you the most. Forever

It's a relief to share the uncomplicated affection that has passed between people and their dogs for thousands of years.

Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...

Don't send me anything! You just come over and put your arm around me. That's all you do. When you haven't got anythin' else to do, let's take a walk. Let's walk around the backyard. And let me tell you how much you mean to all of us and how we can carry on if you give us a little strength.

If a way to a man's heart was through his stomach, surely the way to a mother's heart was through her children.

smoochie kiss.

what does that mean, that word "mavourneen"?

against his cheek he knew she was all right.

To my first love, my only love." "To my greatest love," he answered, clinking his flute to hers, happiness flooding

Only teasing', Death seemed to be saying over his shoulder with a rictus smile, with good humor and an oddly paternal affection. 'Take care of yourself, okay? We'll play again.

Is she your first girlfriend?" I asked, my tone gentle. "I told you, she's not really my girlfriend," he said, ducking the question. "If she's occupying enough of your attention to keep you in bed until the sun sets, I feel safe using the word as shorthand.

He smiled. "What's going on?" "Why does something have to be going on? Maybe I just missed you." He gave me an uncharacteristically streetwise look. I had a feeling I knew where he'd picked it up. "Yeah, I missed you, too." I wasn't looking forward to the turn the conversation would take when I brought up Yukiko, and felt no hurry to get there. A waitress came by. Harry ordered a coffee and some carrot cake.