Affection Quote by Kiera Cass

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

— Kate Morton

She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality…

— Lawrence Durrell

A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.

— Watchman Nee

“She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she…

— Nicole Krauss

“Fortunately, she understood the difference between biological attraction and lasting affection.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“She'd spent seven long years without so much as a hug, and she was starved for physical affection. She had known what it was…

— Julia Quinn

She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

— Diana Gabaldon

“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

Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely…

— Jane Austen

“She knew it the way people say they know they are about to be hit by lightning, yet remain powerless to run, unable to…

— Alice Hoffman

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

— Margaret Atwood

Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.

— Silius Italicus