Affection Quotes
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.
Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.
Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn't what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.
Do not try to explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.
True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.
Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.
What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.