Affection Quotes
God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.
I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.
Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.
When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.
Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.
Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.
We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.
We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.
She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.
It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.
If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.
I could take back those moments that snatched you away from me or maybe just wipe away those ten minutes when you came to me for the first time and I looked into your eyes to realise what love is.
Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.
I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.
My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.
How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.
I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.
We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.
She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.