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Quotes About Affection

Mayhap Bao was right, and I did fall in love as easily as other people fall out of a boat; but I loved in earnest.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Remember, the most important thing in the world is to have a man who loves you.
~ Jacqueline Susann
Love is something that must be given Ã¢â'¬â€ it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
~ Jacqueline Susann
he's only got to look at me to see he comes first. First and last and all the stages in between. I
~ Jacqueline Wilson
Oh poor Princess Emerald, you've been fated to be frozen all day,' said Dad, and he wrapped his arms round me.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
She thought the flat would be all the better for some photographs, not only to serve as reminders of those who were loved, or reflections of happy times spent in company, but to act as mirrors, where she might see the affection with which she was held by those dear to her.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
With love? Did those words have meaning for Mark Scott? Or was it just a line that people used—and perhaps even more so when it felt as if affection had begun to evaporate?
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Don't you know you take my heart with you everywhere you go?
~ Jacquelyn Frank
She had told him that she loved him. He had known that, but hearing it in the traditional phrase had affected him in new and blinding ways. Ways that made him believe that he could do anything. Anything she needed or wanted him to do. Because her loving him meant so much more than him loving her.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
Now Bella, you know Jacob adores you. He naturally wants to protect you. He literally worships the ground you walk on. Ha ha, Bella said dryly. Earth demon. Worship the ground. Cute. Really cute.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
With profound shock he realized that of himself he was nothing... By his friends he had been taught to understand music and art and logic and sportsmanship and even the rudiments of honesty. He had been a formless thing until the affectionate interest of others had made him into a sentient being.
~ James A. Michener
Much that is commonly called sympathy is personal affection. To love them who love us is human bias and inclination; but to love them who do not love us is divine sympathy.
~ James Allen
The only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do
~ James Altucher
It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
~ James Baldwin
You think...that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are. Why are they—shameful? Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It's like putting an electric plug in a dead socket. Touch, but no contact. All touch, but no contact and no light.
~ James Baldwin
We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.
~ James Baldwin
Love him,' said Jacques, with vehemence, 'love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
~ James Baldwin
He grins again, and everything inside me moves. Oh, love. Love.
~ James Baldwin
I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was.
~ James Baldwin
For here you were, Big James, named for me—you were a big baby, I was not—here you were, to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world.
~ James Baldwin
not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour… – for the lack of it.
~ James Baldwin
No matter how it seems now, I must confess: I loved him. I do not think that I will ever love anyone like that again.
~ James Baldwin
It seemed, then, that a lifetime would not be long enough for me to act with Joey the act of love.
~ James Baldwin
I wish to God I may die if I don't love you. There ain't no sky above us if I don't love you
~ James Baldwin