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Quotes About Affection

But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.
~ Rick Riordan
That was one of the many reasons she loved him, even if he was an Olympian-sized pain in the podex
~ Rick Riordan
Three words. A promise of hope. The words tingled in Will's ear. They ignited his heart. 'I love you.
~ Rick Riordan
Sam again demonstrated her affection for me by not clubbing my brains out. We were having a friendship fest here at the Thinking Cup.
~ Rick Riordan
I kissed her, because 1) when you're a demigod going into battle, every kiss might be your last, and 2) I like kissing her.
~ Rick Riordan
So this is where the rivalry started, Percy said. Yeah. Percy pulled Annabeth close and kissed her.... When Percy pulled away, Annabeth looked like a fish gasping for air. The rivalry ends here, Percy said. I love you, Wise Girl.
~ Rick Riordan
Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and loves you? -Aphrodite
~ Rick Riordan
AWWW, YOU two are so cute together it makes me sick. So I'm going back to my own room." I'm not sure Mallory and Halfborn even heard me when I left, they were lip-locking so hard. Seeing them like that almost made me miss Magnus. Almost.
~ Rick Riordan
Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy's ear. I love you. She wasn't sure he could hear her -but if they were going to die she wanted those to be her last words.
~ Rick Riordan
When Athena falls in love, it's purely intellectual. It's a meeting of minds. The purest kind of love.
~ Rick Riordan
You want her to like you. But when you rescue somebody…it complicates things. Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important. Don't…don't make my mistakes.
~ Rick Riordan
When she smiled at me, just for a moment she looked a little like Annabeth. Then like this television actress I used to have a crush on in fifth grade. Then…well, you get the idea.
~ Rick Riordan
she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return.
~ Kate Atkinson
A lot of people thought Theo spoiled his girls, but how could you spoil a child—by neglect, yes, but not by love. You had to give them all the love you could, even though giving that much love could cause you pain and anguish and horror and, in the end, love could destroy you. Because they left, they went to university and husbands, they went to Canada and they went to the grave.
~ Kate Atkinson
He loved Viola as only a parent can love a child, but it was hard work.
~ Kate Atkinson
Ursula's heart tripped and skipped and flipped at the sight of him. The very object of her affection! The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole. And here he was! What luck.
~ Kate Atkinson
I hope you won't completely forget me.
~ Kate Chopin
Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.
~ Kate Chopin
I love you, only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream.
~ Kate Chopin
She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometimes forget them.
~ Kate Chopin
It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.
~ Kate Chopin
Why," went on Edna, clasping her knees and looking up into Mademoiselle's twisted face, "do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself: 'Go to! Here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' Or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' Or, 'This financier, who controls the world's money markets?
~ Kate Chopin
She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.
~ Kate Chopin
There, she said. She rocked him back and forth. There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?
~ Kate DiCamillo