…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companion ate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.

— Karen Swallow Prior

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

— Thiruvalluvar

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Finally, I realized that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their ways to appeal you, for they will only follow their own nature. Accept it! You may like it or dislike it. The irony is in the process there may be phases in individual’s lives where their actions/ behavior may appease you, but that’s never to be misunderstood that they have changed for you. From an evolutionary psychology standpoint, that’s a rebellious attitude that shapes our society!

— Ramana Pemmaraju

From attraction and affection Cover of perfection Failure beyond texture to a painful lesson Everything that was from the start wasn't from the heart

— Criss Jami

Giovanni had awakened an itch, had released a gnawn in me. I realized it one afternoon, when I was taking him to work via the Boulevard Montparnasse. We had bought a kilo of cherries, and we were eating them as we walked along. We were both insufferably childish and high-spirited that afternoon and the spectacle we presented, two grown men jostling each other on the wide sidewalk and aiming the cherry pits, as though they were spitballs, into each other's faces, must have been outrageous. And I realized that such childishness was fantastic at my age and the happiness out of which it sprang yet more so; for that moment I really loved Giovanni, who had never seemed more beautiful than he was that afternoon.

— James Baldwin

Go to bed! Someone is anxious to come into your dream.

— Ljupka Cvetanova

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

— Jane Austen

..... Her eyebrows are the living example of nature.

— Farooq A. Shiekh

Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has been the kisser and not the kissed. It wasn't like the last time, which felt fumbling and unnatural. That time wasn't off-putting, just like kissing one's sister. This kiss, my kiss, was tingling sweetness, electric apple blossoms.

— Thomm Quackenbush