top of page
"I love the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying-like the sun striking th cheek of a tomato, or soap drying in the hood of a car. I loved the way his hand felt on my spine. I loved."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Affection quotes

"You don't need sex to make love, but you need love to make sex."

"Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me."

"Come, let us speak with our bodies.Teach me how to please you.I am here to learn.Let us not waste this time.It is the hour of union.ComeAnd after you do,Come again."

"I hope you know I love you, not just because I tell you so at every opportunity, but because I show you so as often as the sun sets."

"Sex becomes less and less pleasurable in a relationship over time. Your brain gets habituated to the sensual stimulation from your specific partner as you are exposed to it repeatedly. It doesn't mean that the love is gone from the relationship. Love still exists beyond the barriers of time, in the form of attachment, which becomes independent of sexual intimacy after the euphoric stage of mad love."

"The feelings in love and the orgasm in sex are the supernatural powers inside every one of us."

"Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable."

"That's love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
Explore more quotes by Jodi Picoult

"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream."

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it."

"A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up."

"What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars."

"I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules-if she could hear you . . . My voice trails off."Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy? Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you?"
bottom of page