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Quotes About Affection

There is a love for the real, an affection for the true, in all of Dutch art. A church interior with its stillness. A hand with its gesture. A landscape with its distances. A cloud with its motion.
~ Katharine Weber
with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched...
~ Katherine Anne Porter
All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.
~ Katherine Dunn
Es bonito que alguien te adore. Aunque en ocasiones es incómodo.
~ Katherine Paterson
Jess vio cómo su padre detenía la camioneta y se inclinaba a abrir la puerta para que May Belle pudiera subir. Se volvió. Pequeña con suerte. Ella podía correr tras él y cogerle y besarle. Jess sentía un dolor por dentro cuando veía a su padre subir a las pequeñas en sus hombros o se agachaba para darles un abrazo. Le parecía que creían que era demasiado grande para esas cosas desde que nació.
~ Katherine Paterson
one day when I was changing her diapers she took my hand and put it on her tummy, so I tickled her. My reward was her first smile.
~ Katherine Paterson
Shanna - Madam Beauchamp. You have provided the brightest moment in my day. As she stared, his lips moved further in soundless vow. I love you.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
His gaze dropped and fell to the floor in thoughtful concentration for a long moment. When he looked up at her again, his gaze was direct and unflinching. Because I have fallen in love with you.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Being in love makes every morning worth getting up for.
~ Kathleen Fuller
I compensated for my athletic deficiency with an upright bearing and an impeccable style of dress that earned me the nickname "the Count"—one bestowed with affection, as I was good-humored about my own foibles.
~ Kathleen Rooney
Not loving you—that would hurt more.
~ Kay Cornelius
There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
So I know just how much it matters to you that people who love one another are brought together, even after many years.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Sisters are supposed to be people you're close to, aren't they. You may not like them much, but you're still close to them.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Then the Coffee Cup Lady reached the RPO Building side, and she and the man were holding each other so tightly they were like one large person, and the Sun, noticing, was pouring his nourishment on them.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
There was something very special, but it wasn't inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm sure she felt it too, because we'd always hold each other very tight after times like that, as though that way we'd manage to keep the feeling away.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
People who love one another are brought together, even after many years.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Sometimes, she wondered if she loved him too much and too soon. Loving him had become her salvation. She loved him like he was the last of his kind.
~ Keisha Ervin
I slid closer, feeling his arms close around me, tightening. Our lips touched-- Derek? his dad called. Chloe? Derek let out a growl. I laughed and backed up. We seem to get a lot of that, don't we? I said. Too much. After we eat, we're going for a walk. A long walk. Far from every possible interruption. I grinned up at him. Sounds like a plan
~ Kelley Armstrong
I wanted to walk over there. I wanted to curl up beside him, lean against him, talk to him. I wanted to know what he was thinking. I wanted to tell him everything would be okay. And I wanted him to tell me the same thing. I didn't care if it was true or not- I just wanted to say it. To hear it, to feel his arms around me, hear the rumble of his words, that deep chuckle that made me pulse race
~ Kelley Armstrong
You want to keep looking? I asked. Yeah, maybe. I'll leave you to it, then. I started for the door. No. He said it quickly, and reached for my arm, but stopped before he touched me. I mean, if you're tired, sure, but you don't have to. Derek doesn't want her to leave ?
~ Kelley Armstrong
He smiled. Hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug.
~ Kelley Armstrong