Affection Quotes

I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed...

It's not love—but she's important to me. I find myself listening for her footsteps down the hallway whenever she's been out.

You never know how much you share with someone until the sharing ends.

To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you.
And you, on your part, have no need of me.
To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other.
To me, you will be unique in all the world.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

"What does that mean — 'tame'?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox.
"It means to establish ties.".
"'To establish ties'?"
"Just that," said the fox.

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

there is nothing people are so often deceived in as the state of their own affections.