Affection Quote by Nora Roberts

She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd…

— Christine Feehan

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition…

— Joyce Carol Oates

She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good…

— Michelle Herman

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

— Janette Rallison

She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away…

— Vladimir Nabokov

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

— Rainbow Rowell

... he broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide his body.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

— Sarah MacLean

Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had no doubt…

— Maya Banks

...the world she ran through loved her and would give her what she wanted and would let it happen.

— Ian Mcewan

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

— Tim O'Brien