Affection Quotes

I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship

It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.

It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.

If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.

I will do anything. Anything, Blaire, just to be near you. I can’t think about anything else. I can’t focus on anything. So never think you’re inconveniencing me. You need me, I’m there.

Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

The heart is the place where our life gets its direction.

Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.