Nan Fairbrother - Love Quotes

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There are so many disciplines in being a parent besides the obvious ones like getting up in the night and putting up with the noise in the day. And almost the hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain, to show them we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves.... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Nan Fairbrother

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

Nan Fairbrother

Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

Nan Fairbrother