Affection Quote by Isabel Allende

“one to openly display affection, except for a hug here and there, but her love had a gentle constancy I could feel.”

— Leigh Byrne

“The affections are more reticent than the passions, and their expression more subtle.”

— E.M. Forster

“Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And…

— Karen Fisher

“Absence feeds affection.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to,…

— Erika M. Szabo

“Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits.…

— Charles Dickens

“Love seems to be as Essential as Sunlight”

— Diane Ackerman

“Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.”

— Bryant McGill

“Taking care of loved ones in my world was not based on affection. It was based on the fear of losing them.”

— Clemantine Wamariya

“Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.”

— Peter Watts

“Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich