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Quotes About Affection

It's never trouble to do things for people you love.
~ Irene Hannon
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone's company you love them.
~ Iris Murdoch
Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved nothing is gauche. Every move of the head, every tone of the voice, every laugh or grunt or cough or twitch of the nose is as valuable and revealing as a glimpse of paradise.
~ Iris Murdoch
He was glad that he had expressed to her, however blunderingly, what he felt. He was glad that he had held her hand.
~ Iris Murdoch
I need love, I've never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy.
~ Iris Murdoch
You've obviously never been in love. I have actually. And awfully . And—always—without hope—I've never had my love reciprocated ever.
~ Iris Murdoch
You don't respect me, said Dora, her voice trembling. Of course I don't respect you, said Paul. Have I any reason to? I'm in love with you, unfortunately, that's all. Well, it's unfortunate for me too, said Dora, starting to cry.
~ Iris Murdoch
You can't kiss me and vanish.
~ Iris Murdoch
I did love her in a way, but it was under the sign of doom.
~ Iris Murdoch
I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell—just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later—I wish I'd told him.
~ Iris Murdoch
You're as wonderful as I expected, and I worship you for it.
~ Iris Murdoch
He could go back and take her in his arms. If only he knew how to do this. But they had lost the language of their affections, they had lost the style.
~ Iris Murdoch
It is unfortunately for us both also the truth that I love you and only you utterly and permanently and to distraction.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps the crime was that of letting himself be loved so much more than he loved.
~ Iris Murdoch
His eyes closed now, and for a long time they sat quietly thus. Such was their lovemaking.
~ Iris Murdoch
There was as much emotion generated between them now as if they had been lovers.
~ Iris Murdoch
I've felt so sad for years about you. My love for you has always had a sad face.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'm falling in love with you again, most terribly in love. I've never been out of love with you, never for a second.
~ Iris Murdoch
I love you, I want you, I'd die for you —
~ Iris Murdoch
Our relationship in fact was never idle. It was obvious that we constantly thought about each other.
~ Iris Murdoch
What are you thinking, my love, my darling?' 'About you. I was wondering if you could make me happy. It would be fearfully difficult.' 'I'm fearfully clever, and I love you fearfully much.
~ Iris Murdoch
How little thought he had given to her since, how little imagination of her feelings — and after the great honour which she had done him. She had offered him herself and said she loved him.
~ Iris Murdoch
To find a person inexhaustible is simply the definition of love.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'm terribly in love with you. But please don't worry about it.
~ Iris Murdoch