Quotes About Affection

Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous

The desire for reassurance. And, equally, to be reassured. (The itch to ask whether I'm still loved; and the itch to say, I love you, half-fearing that the other has forgotten, since the last time I said it.)

The longing to touch / be touched. I feel gratitude when I touch someone—as well as affection, etc. The person has allowed me proof that I have a body—and that there are bodies in the world.

What do I enjoy? Music Being in love Children Sleeping Meat

Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.

She remembered wishing, one particular morning... that she might someday have someone to write to, that she could write at the end of a letter full of love and news, As ever, your loving Magdalena Elisabeth.

But even one-way love, fleeting love, is better than no love at all. I'm grateful for having had the feeling.

Dogs are so easy to please—let them out when they're in, and in when they're out, and they'll reward you with sloppy, wet kisses for days.

I love you Daddy. How hard was that to say Why hadn't she said it before Because she wasn't sure she meant it or was she afraid it would be one-sided

You're right. I have no heart because I lost it to you.

She loved him so much that it hurt. Maybe that was how love worked. If you could handle the pain, you'd find the sweetness.

Sometimes the true value of the piece is how much a person loves it.

Do you feel the magic?" "Aye," he breathed into her salt-dusted hair. "It's all around me, but most especially, here in my arms.

There was something in the way a man held a woman when he was about to let her go.

Why do you keep trying to make me feel better? Because it sucks for you, the things you found out today, and there's no fixing any of them. And because I like you. You like me... That's what I said. How? What? How do you like me? As a person you feel sorry for because I just found out some really bad news? As someone you've been working with this summer? As an ex-girlfriend you still have old feelings for? Close. As an ex-girlfriend I have new feelings for.

your smile is my sunshine.

Make me a part of this place. Make me a part of Caitlin. Please, God, I love her so.

remember the love.

I want you to look at me and see no other than the man you love. I want you to feel a start of pure joy when you awaken in the morning and find me beside you. I want you to wish you could rush the sunset so that we can be together sooner.

It's a Kalahari diamond," he said. "I picked a square cut because it looks like a crystal of salt." Margot reached across the table and touched two fingers to his lips. "It's the prettiest thing I ever saw.

Caitlin, I was born to worry about you.

Family" included Natalie, who was the sort of aunt every kid wanted, the sort of sister every woman should have, related by something much more potent than blood.

I suspect I shall love you, she wrote with a wry understanding, as long as you do me, at least, and perhaps a little bit longer.

I once read that the sociologist Jane Addams called this burden the "family claim," two words that explain it well enough: a bond—no, a bondage, braided of strands of guilt, duty, and affection.