Quotes About Affection

Sincere people do not think of themselves, of their talent, their genius, their virtue, their beautify and because they are so unconscious of themselves, they attract all, and win their confidence, affection, and esteem.

Les générosites en amour se payent cher.

Can you feel this He flattened her hand on his chest. His heart thudded rapidly against her palm. It always does this when you're near me. When you're not, I'm looking for you, feeling something missing. I'm not whole when you're not around. It took being with you again to discover how empty my life was without you in it. - Brady Fitzpatrick

all brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for.

Someone who loves us passionately is motivated to know and understand us to a greater depth than someone with whom our relationship is more casual.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life. The mother herself - as if the red ignominy were so deeply scorched into her brain that all her conceptions assumed its form - had carefully wrought out the similitude, lavishing many hours of morbid ingenuity to create an analogy between the object of her affection and the emblem of her guilt and torture.

the boy's tender and confiding simplicity discerned what other people could not see; and thus the love, which was meant for all, became his peculiar portion.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about each others, and so they kiss as if they've done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen.

The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.

I love you," he said. "Same here," she responded. "Now get lost.

The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.

I love you, Risa, he says. Every last part of me.

Love remains mortal

What was friendship if it isn't some kind of love?

And besides, the human heart if rarely practical.

A person don't got a soul until that person is loved. If a mother loves her baby--wants her baby--it's got a soul from the moment she knows it's there. The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.

Affection and fondness were two different things.

A person don't got a soul until that person is loved.

her teeth, because he puts his arm around her.

He was loved, but only as one among a group of other beloved things.

Think of my kind old nurse you once were jealous of . . .