children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
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… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them.… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
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… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
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… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
