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Quotes About Affection

her affection was warm and solid, the sort of friendship that made no demands, but was simply there, like sunshine.
~ Gwen Bristow
Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call Homer el mocho was, essentially, to call him "Stumpy" or "the maimed one." It doesn't sound particularly flattering, but among Spanish speakers the giving of nicknames is tantamount to a declaration of love. Things that would sound insulting outright in English were tokens of deep affection when said in Spanish.
~ Gwen Cooper
Homer would scuttle up the side of my denim-clad leg (to this day, there's nothing he loves climbing so much as a pair of jeans)
~ Gwen Cooper
just hope I get to see her again someday. She's the only human I've ever loved.
~ Gwen Cooper
Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you All.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Love loves to return, to bring back to the origin, to begin loving from the first instant, love wants to love everything
~ Helene Cixous
Always kiss your children goodnight — even if they're already asleep.
~ H. Jackson Brown
When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
AS I CRAWLED INTO bed and put my arm around Helen it occurred to me, not for the first time, that there are few pleasures in this world to compare with snuggling up to a nice woman when you are half frozen.
~ James Herriot
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
~ James Herriot
a realisation of my blessings began to return when I slid into bed and Helen, instead of shrinking away from me as it would have been natural to do, deliberately draped her feet and legs over the human ice block that was her husband. The bliss was unbelievable. It was worth getting out just to come back to this.
~ James Herriot
couldn't be persuaded to part with him.
~ James Herriot
you're certain, then, that no human affection can outlast a five-year absence?" "It can, undoubtedly," replied the Chinese, "but only as a fragrance whose melancholy we may enjoy.
~ James Hilton
He was, and he knew it, very quietly in love with the little Manchu. His love demanded nothing, not even reply; it was a tribute of the mind, to which his senses added only a flavor.
~ James Hilton
This person who is so special to you. Open your heart knowing that there's a chance you can experience a love you never dreamed possible.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
To feel such a love, so real, so pure and perfect." Is the ending love I have with you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The feeling of love comes with a certain warmth to fragile heart.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I'ts the simple pleasure of knowing, I am in love with you.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
A life of love now filled with hope, grows stronger day by day. Because my love you are next to me. And there's no other place I would rather be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)