Quotes About Affection

I'm sure he knows you love him. All fathers know that children sometimes say things they really don't mean.

You're not ordinary, Gwyneth," he whispered as he began stroking my hair. "You're totally, absolutely extraordinary. You don't need the magic of any raven to be special to me." He leaned as close as he could get, with his head and arms through the opening of the confessional window, and when his lips touched my mouth, I shut my eyes. Okay. So now I was going to faint.

Would a time ever come when I didn't feel I was dazzled by something incredibly wonderful every time I set eyes on him.

You're my heart's desire, Liv Silver.

Míralo por el lado positivo. Encuentro que eres muy valiente. Y... ¡te quiero! — ¿Puedes decirlo otra vez, por favor? ¿Y luego besarme para que me olvide de todo lo demás? — Puedo intentarlo.

Non sei una ragazza qualunque, Gwendolyn" bisbigliò, mentre mi accarezzava i capelli. "Sei straordinaria. Non hai bisogno della magia del corvo per essere speciale per me." Il suo viso si avvicinò ancora di più. Quando le sua labbra toccarono la mia bocca, chiusi gli occhi. Okay. A questo punto potevo svenire.

I do love country music.

If we had ever met in person, I would have given her a kiss to thank her for all the wonderful help she gave me. Ann, if you read this, your kiss is waiting.

You know," he said, "when you were little and tired like this, I'd throw you over my shoulder and carry you home like a sack of rice. Sometimes I wish you were still that little. I wish I could still do that." "Da-ad. That is so embarrassing," is what she said. But sometimes she wished it, too. Sometimes she wished it with all her heart.

People she loved. Happy people. Lots of people.

before I knew you I kept a sparrow in a shoebox, I fed it ham and held it to my head to hear it sing, I called it a radio, it kept the blues away, I called it love and wrote down all the words, — Kevin Prufer, from "Ars Poetica," Kenyon Review (vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2014)

There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life there's a deep respect for her role.

Grief for the earth, accepting the grief of the flesh and the grief of our grieving forever; grief for the flesh and the body and face, for the eyes that can see only into the world, and the mind that can only think and feel what the world gives it to think and to feel; grief for the mind gone, the flesh gone, the imperfect pain that must stay for its moment; and grief for the moment, its partial beauties, its imperfect affections, all severed, all torn.

Like hot food I love you like warm bread & cold cuts, butter sammiches or, days later, after Thanksgiving when I want whatever's left

Some people you love for life. You can't help yourself, and no matter what happens you're always going to feel that way.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Love is trembling happiness.

He has put affection between their (believers') hearts. If you had spent all that is in the earth, you could not have produced that affection. It is Allah Who has accomplished it." (al-Anf?l 8:63)

If you don't want me to be in love with you, you're going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I'm having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.

Sometimes it's enough just to say their names like a rosary, ordinary names linked by nothing but the fact that they belong to men who loved you.

Steffi wasn't tired anymore. In fact, she felt invigorated. She was going to make it. She needed more of those kisses.

It's good to be in love.

Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.