Affection Quotes

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.

It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief

loss takes as much as love does, sometimes more

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

Heartbreak, death and loss were shared between us, but renewal, commitment and strength as well.

Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?

You are always going to love him, " she said. " You're stuck with that.

Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

I love hard and still haven’t a clue what it feels like…

You are always going to love him, she said " You're stuck with that.

I have been loved, " she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Some say that Love, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings and in a moment flies.

It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their nests.

...and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.

We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

It had been so long since she had felt anything.

I have loved and lost many a time, but along the way I have found myself.

None of us will truly have freedom until we know what it means to lose everything" - Laney

HE didn't realize she was his everything until he gave her up for everything else.

Holding a loved one is something the soul remembers.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

A person can’t possibly live without the one person that gave them life.

I'm not going anywhere, " she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

There cannot be love without loss, just like there cannot be happiness without sadness, or light without dark.

I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.

There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.

But now that she was dying, I knew everything. My mother was in me already. Not just the parts of her that I knew, but the parts of her that had come before me too.

Love left to languish will bear poisonous fruit.

Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.

I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.

I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.

Mad – empty – crazy – lost – dying... I was all of these things and nothing as well, because even though I breathed and moved, I was not alive.

I loved her in spite of myself. I loved her immeasurably.Infinitely. And I feared that love as much as I feared my own fury at theworld.

Learning to live again wholeheartedly includes letting love flow freely in and out of your heart.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

I loved and lost and survived.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

Be glad that once you did experience that magic. It's part of who you are now, and you're richer for it.

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.