Love Quote by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“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

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

— E.M. Forster

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

— Peter Watts

“The capacity for affection is the best part of humankind.”

— Jan Siegel

“She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.”

— H.G. Wells

“He was always thoughtful and affectionate toward her, and so she was a sweetheart to him.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Her affections had continually been fluctuating but never without an object.”

— Jane Austen

“It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips of her…

— Jodi Picoult

“Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.”

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Her affection for everything she could love increased.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the…

— Thomas Hardy

“Affection conquers all obstacles, and the weakest and most inefficient girl that ever stepped, if she have strong within' her that love which, in…

— Edward Lloyd