Nan Fairbrother - People Quotes

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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

Children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

Nan Fairbrother

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Nan Fairbrother

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

Nan Fairbrother