Affection Quotes
When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.
I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too?
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things. Love is the same way. Use it to "season" people.
You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.
If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.
Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.
I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.
Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.
I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.
Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.
I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.
Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.
I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.
I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
I love shopping, but I can find something to buy wherever I go! London is great for shopping, as is Los Angeles and New York - but I can find a good shop in the middle of nowhere!