#Affection

"You know what I like most about people? Pets."

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

"Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn."

"A starving man asleep dreams of food, and even a crumb becomes a feast. When you’re hungry for affection even a no is better than being ignored."

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."

"Flowers are aromatic and romantic, and they grow exactly the way love does—with plenty of light, and watered with affection."

"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—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess."

"To catch affection, try being efficient by using a fishing net. You can’t sit back and wait for romance to grow on trees."

"We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail."

"If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me."

"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."

"True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them."

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."

"A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; otherwise there is enough fun, happiness, enjoyment and pleasure in life."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it."

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

"I had a dream about you. We went for a walk, though we didn’t hold hands because we went in separate directions. As I walked alone I thought about how you had the funniest way of showing affection to me."