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Quotes About Affection

They loved with a love that was frayed around the edges but strong at the seams.
~ Terri Guillemets
She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
And he could glance at her continually as she bent over the fruit, while the level evening sunbeams stole through the thick apple-tree boughs and rested on her round cheek and neck as if they too were in love with her.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
My heart aches love for you.
~ Terri Guillemets
candlelight, moonlight, starlight— the brightest glow is from love light
~ Terri Guillemets
The winter wind is wailing, sad and low, Across the lake and through the rustling sedge; The splendour of the golden after-glow, Gleams through the blackness of the great yew hedge; And this I read on earth and in the sky— "We ought to be together, you and I."
~ Henry Alford, "Together," 1884
My hand is lonely for your clasping, dear, My ear is tired, waiting for your call; I want your strength to help, your laugh to cheer, Heart, soul, and senses need you, one and all. I droop without your full frank sympathy— We ought to be together, you and I.
~ Henry Alford, "Together," 1884
There's nothing like a mama-hug.
~ Terri Guillemets, 1996
A mother's kiss lovingly forgives the past, present, and future.
~ Terri Guillemets
Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.
~ Author Unknown
A family is a patchwork of love.
~ Author Unknown
Love is the thread that binds us.
~ Author Unknown
Those who sleep under a quilt, sleep under a blanket of love.
~ Author Unknown
She smelled Roy before she saw him. She liked to imagine that it was the perfume of his good heart.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
That was where friendships were smelted from unrefined ore into pure metal: two girls staying up past their bedtime, painting one another's nails, trying on one another's clothes, wondering about ghosts, confiding secrets, swapping tokens of undying affection, hours of whispering in the darkness.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
~ Gore Vidal
the love of one true man is worth a life's devotion
~ Grace Livingston Hill
Talleta muistiisi itse rakkaus äläkä sen menettämistä
~ Grace Metalious
My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong historical moment, living such long, never to be mediate wars with other sufferers.
~ Grace Paley
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
~ Graham Greene
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
~ Graham Greene
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
~ Graham Greene
Some people feed you with love.
~ Graham Joyce
And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.
~ Graham Swift