Affection Quotes
You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures.
That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.
I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply that she doesn't love you.
That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.
Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it.
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.
We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.
And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.
Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us.
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.
Playboy stretched his arm, patting Carlos on the back. "Well, you know what they say: If you love someone, let'em go. If they don't come back, hunt'em down and kill'em!
God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in life, and she was his.
We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.
When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.
the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself
I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.
when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need
Thoughts, words, emotions & deeds not coming from love are likely coming from fear.
Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}
I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again.
Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?
I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.
Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.
Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?
A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.