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You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.

You are so special and important and elegant and smart and kind and worthwhile, and you are so much better than me and everyone else I’ve ever known in every single way, and you are the only truth I have ever found in this lying world, and I love you to the floor of me, and it breaks me to imagine a future without you in it, and I just want you to know all that, just because.

You can demand that I accept who you are, You cannot demand that I should like you too.

You can neither force nor buy true affection; love speaks its way, and own language regardless of high or low-class subjects.

You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.

...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

You neither force nor buy true affection, love speaks its way and own language regardless of high or low-class subjects.

You want me to talk about love, to give you a hold, something to feel, to admire or obtain. I will not give you a straw to grasp, and in this emptiness you will be taken by yourself. You are love so don’t try to be a lover.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

A hug is like a strangle you haven't finished yet.

A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

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

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.