The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
the urgent crowds out the essential.
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.