Quotes About Affection

ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, but Angelfield was an odd fellow, and there it was.

This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

I love you, I love you, I love you. ~Cassandra

And I suspect that, to the eyes of love, love shows. I knew about you as well as about myself, almost from the beginning.

miserable people cannot afford to dislike each other. Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

deep down, in some vague, mixed way I had been letting myself hope that he didn't really care for her, that it was me he loved and that kissing me would have made him realise it...

perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know any thing but happiness.

I do call it a sign of a beautiful nature if a girl who is in love and surrounded by all the splendour is lonely for her sister.

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known.

Days like this. I look at you and feel electric. Tell me you don't feel it too.

I would think of it with affection because of its scenes of fragmentary beauty, because it brought men closer together through their perversity and fear, because it enabled us to pretend that death could be a tender experience, and because it breached the long silence.

The daughters are tired of kissing each other, although some are not.

Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up!

The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

But it's better when you have somebody to go home to and talk about it with, somebody who is more in love with you than impressed by you.

It's a phone call in the morning to pray about our day, a text-message to say I'm thinking of her, a handwritten note, a postcard when I'm out of town on business, remembering what drink she likes when we're at a bar, asking follow-up questions about her friends, and not hiding behind humor when it's time for a serious conversation.

Sometimes the real bonding happens in conversations about nothing, Don," she said. "Sometimes being willing to talk about nothing shows how much we want to be with each other. And that's a powerful thing.

If you flatter somebody it will go to their heads. If you love them it will go to their hearts.

It's funny what happens to you when part of your heart gets born inside somebody else.

Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.