Quotes About Affection

She leaned over the bed to plant a goodbye kiss on his cheek. Instead he reached up and cupped her head in his left hand, so that he was in charge of her kiss and it landed oh his lips. It was not, as she would have expected, the fumbling kiss of a boy unused to dating but the practiced kiss of a man who knew exactly what he was doing.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but tequila makes it so she doesn't give a shit if she's fond of you are not

They say love makes the world go around… I been dizzy for a long time.

It'd hardly be worth having a brother at all, if you couldn't smack him in the head every once in a while.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf.

Denn gegen die Liebe ist kein Kraut gewachsen, gegen sie hilft kein Trank, keine Speise, nichts, was in Zaubersprüchen gemurmelt wird, sondern nur Kuss und Umarmung und nackt beieinanderzuliegen. - Philetas

For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

By nature I am not tough, believe it or not. I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer.

I think you need to take some time To show me that your love is true

I am yours," he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you.

Since I know you don't like me, don't bother answering, because it would trouble you; but I remember you always and I keep a place for you in my heart, brimful of poetry.

For each kiss I gave you a huge cluster of tears!

Between your love for me and mine for you --air of stars and tremor of plant-- a thicket of anemones raises with a dark moan an entire year.

It must be confessed, however, that sentiment is the charm, as it always is the affection of mediocrity, which, without it, would often be insufferable, and yet with it, is as often ridiculous.

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.

Come, lay thy head upon my breast and I'll kiss thee unto rest.

For there was soft remembrance, and sweet trust In one fond breast, to which his own would melt, And in its tenderer hour on that his bosom dwelt.

I could love anything on Earth that appeared to wish it.

All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.

Jake's pulse quickened when he realized that for the first time in his life, he was looking straight into the honest eyes of love.

He'd never felt more loved or wanted than when he was with Bess. Had never felt more important or cherished than when in her arms. Was it wrong to want her on every human level? Not wrong, perhaps, but not right, either....

There are subjects for which I have more than ordinary affection because they are associated in my mind with kindly and understanding men or women--sculptors who left even upon such impliant clay as mine the delicate chiseling of refined genius, who gave unwittingly something of their final character to most unpromising material.