Affectively Laden Quotes & Sayings

You can't manipulate me. I made the choice because you look like some lost puppy dog at the the thought of losing me, and I felt bad for you. — Stephanie Rowe

No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error. — G.K. Chesterton

It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive. The fit can handle the impurities in the air and in the water, but the poor people who are sick, it really affects them more. — Jack LaLanne

But perhaps the most acute sense of happiness from writing was the happiness of expressing a very complicated idea - the kind of idea that takes hundreds of pages to capture. — Gretchen Rubin

And that was the end of Smaug — J.R.R. Tolkien

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. — W. Somerset Maugham

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about. — Sarah Dessen

Did you see that bison on the wall there? He's so big. And so cute."

Angelo grinned. "I thought you might say that. That's why I got a smaller version." He took the plush animal from inside his jacket, where he'd been hiding it, and placed it on the table. "This is Ted."

Minka's eyes glistened with tears as she stared at it. Crap, what had he done wrong? He'd thought she'd love it.

But then she grabbed the toy in one hand, threw her arms around Angelo, and squeezed him so hard his ribs creaked.

"Thank you," she said against his chest. "He's perfect. — Paige Tyler

Everyone's parents argue-that just happens in any relationship-but parents shouldn't fight in front of their kids. — Courtney Allison Moulton

People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others ... — Randall Jarrell

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. — Missy Elliott