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Quotes About Affection

I was jealous; therefore I loved.
~ Jack London
He did not playfully shake him, as was his wont, or murmur soft love curses; but he whispered in his ear.'As you love me, Buck. As you love me,' was what he whispered. --Call of the Wild
~ Jack London
He had a way of taking Buck's head roughly between his hands, and resting his own head upon Buck's, of shaking him back and forth, the while calling him ill names that to Buck were love names. Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would be shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy.
~ Jack London
Their hate bound them together as love could never bind.
~ Jack London
My pa is a brilliant, charming man. We go out and play together and laugh a lot. He has a twinkle in his eye.
~ Rachael Stirling
Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
~ Vanessa Lachey
One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.
~ Tommy Lee
Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
~ Drew Barrymore
A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.
~ Kristin Hannah
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
~ Brian Clough
I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.
~ Katie Price
I think my understanding of different types of love has certainly deepened.
~ Cate Blanchett
I don't hate. I love the Russian people. I love the Belarusan people... I love Ukraine very much.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
I have three homes: my Belarusian land, the homeland of my father, where I have lived my whole life; Ukraine, the homeland of my mother, where I was born; and Russia's great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself. All are very dear to me.
~ Svetlana Alexievich
My family has been really supportive of me and is really happy. They made me who I am and so they trust me and love me and ultimately want me to have love too.
~ Hannah Brown
I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I am shy. I was unable to say I love you to my wife, unable to propose, so I am that shy.
~ Gurmeet Choudhary
In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion.
~ Elizabeth Flock
I think about Marvin every day. The love I have for this man is unbelievable. We were close; we were like brothers.
~ Billy Paul
I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.
~ Steve Martin
Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, "I love you.KailaniSiobhan Fallon
~ Siobhan Fallon
Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.
~ Virgil, The Eclogues
"He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.
~ Nancy B. Brewer