Affection Quotes

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Oh, leave it,â€ said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. â€œSheâ€™s annexed my plan!â€ â€œWill,â€ Tessa said firmly. â€œDo you care… — Cassandra Clare
We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk… — Audrey Hepburn
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. — John Green
People talk of â€œsocial outcasts.â€ The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have… — Osamu Dazai
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will… — John Green
When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one canâ€™t insist on love or demand affection. youâ€™re finally left with whatever you have… — Charles Bukowski
For often I have wished to see a person again without realising that it was simply because that personal recalled to me a hedge of… — Marcel Proust
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. — Elisabeth Elliot
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives… — Joseph Addison
People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection. — Robert Cormier
Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit till… — Laurie Faria Stolarz
I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally.… — Jewel
When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet… — Ellen Hopkins
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of… — Theophile Gautier
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see… — Orhan Pamuk
The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only… — Timothy Keller
Stop it!' He relented, so far as he could, stepping forward to take my head into his hands. 'Russell, once, only once, I was taken… — Laurie R. King

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