259 quotes found
“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a deep, sooth...”
“Jess is too big for her skin, as if she might float away in the exhilarating possibility of the moment.”
“To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endure the betrayal of false friends;to appreciate b...”
“Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.”
“Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.”
“No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.”
“What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.”
“Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.”
“At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?”
“The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.”
“Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossi...”
“Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.”
“Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.”
“Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis o...”
“It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no matter how closely, to be different from another.”
“Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.”
“What's the best way to say because it's too embarrassing to talk to a crush about sex and read an explicit thing they wrote while they're right there?”
“A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture of affection, care, desire and expectation.”
“No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.”
“I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them.”
