When I heard about these lessons, I thought they would be a dreadful waste of my time. I pictured two very silly girls uninterested in any sort of instruction. But that describes neither Miss Gray nor yourself. I should tell you, I used to train younger Shadowhunters in Madrid. And there were quite a few of them who didn’t have the same native ability that you do. You’re a talented student, and it is my pleasure to teach you.”
Sophie felt herself flush scarlet. “You cannot be serious.”
“I am. I was pleasantly surprised the first time I came here and again so the next time and the next. I found that I was looking forward to it. In fact, it would be fair to say that since my return home, I have hated everything in London except these hours with you.
Tag: affection gideon-lightwood
He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.
Victor HugoTag: affection
You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence.
James JoyceTag: love soul affection uncertainty desire
Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosTag: love affection actions feelings conduct behavior madame-de-tourvel vicomte-de-valmont
In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.
Hiro FujiwaraTag: affection kisses gifts giving-better-than-receiving
He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one sees the sun, without looking.
Leo TolstoyWhat Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.
Len DeightonTag: love youth selfishness affection ss-gb
A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture
of affection, care, desire and expectation.
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
Honoré de BalzacTag: love heart hatred emotions affection
Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that.
Tag: soul affection honor body slander clean babbling slanderer
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