“Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.”
“Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.”
“Unless the object of the singer’s affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. Only vampires are unphotographable, but affectionate ‘-enic’ rhymes are hard to come by.”
“There is no need to shove, his duchess said snippily.There is every need. Think of it not as shoving, but an affectionate nudge.”
“Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.”
“I nuzzled them both to remind them that there was really no need to grieve, since I was okay and really a much better pet than Smokey ever was.”