Quotes About Affection

You're in front of my face, he said every day. It was an old Yemeni expression, hard to translate into English. It was something you said to a loved one, to a friend, while pointing to your own face. It meant that the person before you was never out of your vision. That you kept them foremost in your mind.

Dignity is an affection, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

You're my best boy. Whatever happens, you'll always be my best boy.

She bookmarked my texts, my notes, my scribblings. She walked through my thoughts, waded through my dreams.

I've seen enough in this world to know that two people who can make each other that miserable must love each other a lot.

dream. Her old man was proud of her, Gibson knew, though he rarely showed it. Public displays of affection were not in the DNA of the Rogers family. Gibson could count on one hand the number of times her mother had hugged or kissed her. And she could count

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If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since.

I know that in your heart you miss all those wonderful moments you spent with my father --watching him gnaw on the furniture, listening to his insane gibbering, and enjoying all those playful blows to the stomach and kicks to the head with which he demonstrated his affection for his wives. --King Urgit

Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.

Love can show itself in many strange ways

Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fiber of my being. The thought of things about you, concerning you, troubling you, that I don't know about, makes blood run from my eyes, on the inside.

And a funny thing happens. The man begins to like the Thermos woman. Not love, but like, which is something the man has never experienced before, and finds different, because it involves directing a lot more emotional attention to the actual other person than the old uncontrollable passionate love had involved, involves caring about the whole other person, including the facets and features that have nothing whatsoever to do with the man.

It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children's need to feel that their father or some other parent loves them. It also seems valid to consider the child's desire to feel that a parent actually likes them, as love itself is so automatic and preprogrammed in a parent that it isn't a very good test of whatever it is that the typical child feels so anxious to pass the test of

He and Hal exchanged the very slight sorts of nods people use when they like each other past all need for politeness.

Te quiero, Lenore. No hay odio en lo que siento por ti. Únicamente la tristeza intensa que me provoca mi incapacidad para explicarlo o describirlo

You are in love with a man", says Julie, "who insists that he can love you only when you stand in the exact center of whatever room you are in

The Major folded his arms round her, holding her to him as if she was a child, and kissed her head. I will not change, dear Amelia, he said. I ask for no more than your love. I think I would not have it otherwise. Only let me stay near you, and see you often. Yes, often, Amelia said. And so William was at liberty to look and long: as the poor boy at school who has no money may sigh after the contents of the tart-woman's tray.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

Love gives every gift whereby we long to live: Love takes every gift, and nothing back doth give.

They do not love that do not show their love.

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?

For she had eyes and chose me.