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Quotes About Affection

remember love is all bull, the only true love is that between mother and child.
~ Edna O'Brien
Pero, en estos tiempos, es como si el mundo desapareciera cada día. De vez en cuando es un tiempo que no existe. Es inútil apostar por él. Durante más de dos años yo aposté, con cuerpo de perdida y dignidad de caballero, por un tiempo inexistente. No me quejo. No me arrepiento. Puse algo de dinero. Un gramo de locura. Un montón de afecto. Quizás amor. - Nazdrave! Afortunadamente, el amor ya no es lo que era.
~ Eduardo Mendicutti
Frank Master wasn't really her lover yet. Though he didn't quite know it, he was still on trial. She found him intelligent, kindly, somewhat ignorant of opera, but maybe improvable.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
But, she smiled, it seems to me he has a warm heart.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
When I am in his company, I am so happy. I just want to be with him. That's all I know." She shrugged. "I want to be with him, all the time.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
He hated happy families with their mutual encouragement, and their demonstrative affection, and the impression they gave of valuing each other more than other people.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
He says "I love you" first, even when we respond with an indifferent shrug or the equivalent of a passing, "Oh, thanks." And in this we discover why it might be hard for us to move toward others: the one taking the initiative in the relationship—the one who loves most—is the one who risks humiliation.
~ Edward T. Welch
All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, manman says, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.
~ Edwidge Danticat
And they shared, as she put it, an impractical love.
~ Edwidge Danticat
You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
~ ee cummings
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
~ Albert Camus
Elle ne se doutait pas qu'il était en train d'adorer sa gaucherie et qu'il gardait le silence pour la faire durer.
~ Albert Cohen
La vrai amour ce n'est pas de vivre avec une femme parce qu'on l'aime, mais de l'aimer parce qu'on vit avec elle.
~ Albert Cohen
Again and again the tobacco smell on the Master's breath and clothes had sickened the collie; so had the supposedly delicate perfumes used by the Mistress. Yet blithely had Lad endured these affronts to his tortured nostrils, in order to remain close beside these two humans who were his gods.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
The dog's plumed tail was smiting the dusty floor of the baggage car with happily resounding thumps as Abner talked to him. The man's voice and intonation were such as an animal likes. The collie licked the calloused hand that stroked his silken head. Mutely, a bond of chumship was established between the dog-lonely man and the ill-treated dog.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Again and again he would lie down at her feet; only to waken presently with a thunderous growl and a snarl, and with a lunge of bared teeth at her caressing hand. The hand would continue to caress; and his show of fury was met with a laugh and with a comment: "You've had a good sleep, and now you've waked up in a nice homicidal rage.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Die Liebe stirbt meistens and den kleinen Fehlern, die man am Anfang so entzückend findet.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Me confesarás que un amor correspondido tiene mil veces más fuerzas para aferrares al corazón que el que vive de suspiros y sin esperanza -Rafael san Luis
~ Alberto Blest Gana
La guerra que un amante odiado declara contra su preferido rival en el corazón de una mujer, sirve la más de las veces para aumentar su prestigio, por esa tendencia hacia la contrariedad, natural a la índole femenil.
~ Alberto Blest Gana
Ne možeš dati sud o onome koga voliš.
~ Alberto Moravia
mi innamorai nella sola maniera in cui sono capace di innamorarmi: lentissimamente, cominciando quasi con l'indifferenza e finendo con la passione.
~ Alberto Moravia
I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.
~ Alberto Moravia
Y nadie o casi nadie es amado de la manera en que yo lo deseo —exceptuando algunos perros
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
love me it's your play I say
~ Alejandra Pizarnik