affection

It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of affection. There is not on earth a more merciless extractor of love from others than a thoroughly selfish woman; and the more unlovely she grows, the more jealously and scrupulously she extracts love, to the uttermost farthing.

Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.

When I had to leave she kissed me on both cheeks - a thing she had never done before - and said, 'There's just one thing to remember; whatever happens, it does no good to be afraid.' So I promised not to be afraid, and may even have been a fool enough to think I could keep my promise.

Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

I like the scientific spirit__he holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine__t always keeps the way beyond open__lways gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake__fter a wrong guess.

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

Dork," I chastised affectionately. But his cheesy exclamation was something I was okay with. I smiled up at him. His hazels danced with mischief. "Okay," I agreed. The mischief turned to triumph.Damn those magic eyes!

This year he'd been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as she was to stop-and he had become an accomplice in all sorts of schemes that, even in their innocence, had been thrilling

(...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her language is singularly agreeable to me, and the information she communicates is often just what I wished to gain.___ell, then, with Miss Temple you are good?___es, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides me. There is no merit in such goodness.___ great deal: you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and sothey would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should__o hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.___ou will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl.___ut I feel this, Helen; I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.___eathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilised nations disown it._ __ow? I don__ understand.___t is not violence that best overcomes hate__or vengeance that most certainly heals injury.___hat then?___ead the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts; make His word your rule, and His conduct your example.___hat does He say?___ove your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.

When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

I wonder if you know yet that you__l leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger arms and she will not have violent secrets or an affection for red wine or eyes that never stay dry. You will fall into her bed and I__l go back to spending Friday nights with boys who never learn my last name.

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

Do not keep the slanderer away,treat him with affection and honor:Body and soul, he scours all clean,babbling about this and that.

It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affection he lavished upon her. To have it stolen away unjustly was that much more cruel.

I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them.

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.

A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture of affection, care, desire and expectation.