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Quotes About Affection

singing (though love be a day) for which girl art thou flowers bringing?
~ E.E. Cummings
Be of love (a little) more careful than of everything.
~ E.E. Cummings
Ich trage Dein Herz bei mir. Ich trage es in meinem Herzen.
~ E.E. Cummings
in spite of everything which breathes and moves, since Doom (with white longest hands neatening each crease) will smooth entirely our minds --before leaving my room I turn, and(stooping through the morning)kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.
~ E.E. Cummings
loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
I think you're beautiful, the only beautiful person I've ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
~ E.M. Forster
And could she love where she feared?
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Why does The Sheik, my father, not love me, too?
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
He was discovering what many young men in love have to discover: that the glamour which surrounds their dears does not extend to the relations and friends of their dears.
~ Edgar Wallace
I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.
~ Edith Wharton
He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.
~ Edith Wharton
Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?
~ Edith Wharton
Staunch and faithful lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love that one ever gives them.
~ Edith Wharton
His heart beat with awe: he felt that he had never before beheld love visible.
~ Edith Wharton
Because I - because I want to feel you holding me, he stammered, and dragged her to her feet.
~ Edith Wharton
The only way I can help you is by loving you,' Selden said in a low voice.
~ Edith Wharton
e o fat? delicioas?: n-am mai v?zut o a doua fiin?? atât de deÈ™teapt? È™i de dragu??. EÈ™ti tare îndr?gostit de ea? Newland Archer râse roÈ™ind: - Cât poate fi un b?rbat.
~ Edith Wharton
Hold me, Gerty, hold me, or I shall think of things.
~ Edith Wharton
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage
~ Edmund Burke
Faire Ladies, that to loue captiued arre, And chaste desires do nourish in your mind, Let not her fault your sweet affections marre, Ne blot the bounty of all womankind; 'Mongst thousands good one wanton Dame to find: Emongst the Roses grow some wicked weeds; For this was not to loue, but lust inclind; For loue does alwayes bring forth bounteous deeds, And in each gentle hart desire of honour breeds.
~ Edmund Spenser
Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone, Whom if ye please, I care for other none.
~ Edmund Spenser