259 quotes found
“Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.”
“What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life - and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an irrelevant show of friv...”
“I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.”
“That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.”
“There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.”
“One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. N...”
“What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.”
“...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...”
“I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Seor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?”
“If not love, what?”
“....because people die but their memories not.”
“I knew you'd kiss me.""How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.”
“Parenting role-play change every ten years from affection to duty to responsibility, and then the cycle must reverse with next generation playing the same in the reverse sequence.”
“Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.”
“Over-thinking, a devouring monster,entice, only the inky reflections;there's a pleasure you come by,from this anomalous encounter;kills your desire, for human affection.”
“The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.”
“If my hand on yours trembles it's because bodies never lie.”
“You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.”
“Desire for a person is not the same thing as having that unique appreciation and need for them, nor is affection. Desire waxes and wanes, and affection can be felt without long-standing commitment....”
“You ask me why I dont love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that pe...”
