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Quotes About Affection

I wasn't sure who moved first, Palmer or me. Before I realized what was happening, I was in his embrace, my arms around his neck. We were kissing as if I was sending him off to war.
~ Debbie Macomber
You are the most amazing woman I've ever known, Merry Knight, and I'm crazy about you and that dimple of yours.
~ Debbie Macomber
At the end, in Harry's handiwork, there's nothing sentimental about love, no sunlit clouds and glory notes – it's a substantial, earthbound connection, grounded in effort, kindness and decency. Learning to love, Harry liked to say, is really about learning to live. Perhaps everyday affection seems a small facet of love. Perhaps, though, it is the modest, steady responses that see us through day after day, that stretch into a life of close and loving relationships.
~ Deborah Blum
He patted her belly lovingly—her stomach still firm and flat, belying the secret it cradled. "Anna, this little life is part of you. How can I not love it? If my dad could love me the way I know he did"—Paul meant Albert, the only father he'd ever known—"then I… I guess I can find it in myself to learn to love this child.
~ Deborah Raney
I don't ask for guarantees. I'll tell you what I want. I want to laugh with you. Sit and look at you. Wake up with nothing to think about but how warm and smooth you feel against me. Make a life together. All of this has been worth it if we can have that.
~ Deborah Smith
You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.
~ Deeanne Gist
I lend you a thousand bucks to pay for a date with myself. I let you talk me into wearing a damn tuxedo. The least you could do is hold my hand.' - Paul van Dorn
~ Unknown
First I put my lips to her upper lip, then to the bottom of her pout, and then I kissed her fully, my mouth on her open mouth, and we met inside.
~ Denis Johnson
So...what do you want to do? He didn't even have to think about it. Kiss you again.
~ Denise Hunter
Sometimes family isn't the situation you're born into but the people who've chosen to love you along the way.
~ Denise Hunter
What happened, honey?" She melted at the endearment, at the look in his eyes. "I fell in love with you." Her words left her mouth on a rush of air. Something flared in his eyes. He pulled off his gloves, his eyes never leaving her, and cradled her face. His hands were warm and rough against her cold cheeks. "Eden . . .," he whispered. "I love you too.
~ Denise Hunter
I'm alone," Angie had told me a month ago. "No, you're not." "You're not alone," I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind. "Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can't change that right now.
~ Dennis Lehane
Le dí un beso y ella me lo devolvió.
~ Dennis Lehane
To receive children's love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.
~ Dennis Prager
I am the man my father loved and was.
~ Derek Walcott
And do you care for me?" He kissed her without answering "Tha mun goo, let me dust thee," he said. His hand passed over the curves of her body, firmly, without desire, but with soft, intimate knowledge.
~ DH Lawrence
And as long as she could cook, she would be loved.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
Oh, Claire, ye do break my heart wi' loving you.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more
~ Diana Gabaldon
Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul
~ Diana Gabaldon
I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them. Go back to sleep, mo duinne.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When the day shall come, that we do part, he said softly, and turned to look at me, if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
~ Diana Gabaldon
but Sassenach—I am the true home of your heart, and I know that." He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed my upturned palms, one and then the other, his breath warm and his beard-stubble soft on my fingers. "I have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenach—but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands," he said softly. "And you know that.
~ Diana Gabaldon