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Affection Quotes
"I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices."
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"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."
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"Jealousy is the grave of affection."
31
"LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others."
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"His fingers have been slowly lacing through my hair."
23
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
19
"Unspoken words between you and I,Present in the eyes of knowing,Lost in the realm of unforeseen beauty,I am yours."
19
"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
18
"When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that."
17
"I love you" means I want you to be happy."
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"After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me."
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"I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
14
"That would be fine, she said "If we're alone, we'll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody's having to butt in, and you can whisper in my ear any crap you can think of."
14
"Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place."
14
"Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of latex. She knew that some combined the two and, while she could see how this would improve the magick, it would dilute the sex."
14
"Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi."
13
"I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."
13
"The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence."
13
"One second, he was in my mouth, my tongue flicking over the broad head of him; the next, his hands were on my waist and I flipped onto my front. He nudged my legs apart with his knees, spreading me as he gripped my hips, tugging them up, up before he sheathed himself deep in me with a single stroke.I moaned into the pillow at every glorious inch of him, rising onto my forearms as my fingers grappled into the sheets."
13
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
13
"No matter what corruption he's taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoyment-just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity?-an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces him to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and to accept his real ego as his standard of value."
12
"That's love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
12
"...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love."
11
"I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips."
11
"So what should we do with our last few days?"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you, Peete replies."Come on, then, I say, pulling him into my room.It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn't realize until now how starved I've been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness."
10
"Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book."
10
"Sexual intimacy is not the destination, it is the path - the path that leads to mental union."
10
"Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence."
10
"Sex is not just about going in or letting in, it is really about welcoming your dearly beloved into the deepest regions of your psyche which are inaccessible to anybody else."
9
"The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns."
9
"Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her."
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