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Quotes About Affection

Every now and then my love for that child hit me so hard I felt bowled over. Like a turtle knocked upside down onto its shell, unable to right itself. This was one of those moments.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Nothing hurts like romance.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Then he asked, "How long did it take you to love her?
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Loving someone is knowing them.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
After a moment August felt Henry's arms wrap around his chest, and the little guy's face pressed up hard on his shoulder. "Don't be sad, August," the little mouse voice said.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Any decent man has to feel something for a woman who dearly loves him. Gratitude, if he can muster nothing else.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
This is my heart—carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Why should I care about you first kiss,' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Still, I did love him. He never minded if I wore my pyjamas for a week and didn't brush my hair. That's a good quality to have in a man. Maybe the best a girl could hope for, considering. And, by Jove, he loves that child. Did you know you can fall in love with the way a man loves someone else? Love takes so much effort. You have to get up ever so early in the morning to really love someone properly.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When spring comes, I shall meet you at the Municipal Library, and you will see how much I've learned! You'll be so proud of me and love me so!' 'Oh, Ell, but I do love you! Right now!' 'One can always bear more love,' the Wyverary purred.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You are my treasure, my pale gold, the heart of my heart. You lie at the bottom of my being and gnaw upon my roots.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
he did love her, even if it was beef-love: stupid and tough and overcooked.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Perhaps my philosophy is not so sophisticated. It goes: Come inside. I love you. A Whelk's love will grow as big as it's allowed.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
He rested his hand on mine, once or twice. He kissed my brow, one time, in the late evening when the stars were full as moons, and I had brought him both a jug of wine and a treatise on transfiguration he had been asking for all over town, and I felt it on my head like a pain. But love is like that, it is hard and awful and, usually, it is not contagious.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Kõik emad teavad, et lapsed jooksevad kiiremini kui õhusuudlused. Õigupoolest on õhusuudluse kiirus kosmiline konstant, nagu ütleks doktor Fallow. Lapse kiirusel ei ole piire.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Most of her feelings she deemed insubstantial and she sent them packing with barely a nod of recognition. But her feelings for her daughter she recognized as inevitable, irresistable, and she reveled in them.
~ Cathleen Schine
and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he bore for her and their children
~ Catrin Collier