#affection

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#along #always #confrontation #create #did

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#duration #friendship #life #loyalty #friendship

Giovanni had awakened an itch, had released a gnaw 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

#bisexuality #giovanni-s-room #homosexuality #love #lovers

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#love #sensuality #age

As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think that we are psycho. But what if that's not true? Have you ever stopped to think that? What if it's like there's a beautiful little bird in our hearts and we're too afraid to let anyone see it in there? What's wrong with letting anyone know that there's a bird in your chest? Maybe there are lots of wrong ones, but maybe there's one that's just for you— the one who won't laugh or run away when he sees that little bird. After all, it’s just a pretty bird! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#birds #inspirational-quotes #inspirational-writing-for-women #little-birds #love

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#art #chattering #hands #i #ignorance

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#cannot #human #live #meditation #religion

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#anyone #else #feign #great #i

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conception #foster #i #make #sacrifices

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#banner #devotion #flag #give #i