79 Quotes About Parental-love

Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one's own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

If you want to know what your child is doing, look at their friends, they wouldn't be friends with them if they weren't doing the same things.

Mrs. Winterson did not have a soothing personality. Ask for reassurance and it would never come. I never asked her if she loved me. She loved me on those days when she was able to love. I really believe that is the best she could do.

She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be.

Am I worthy of Juliet, I wondered, worthy as my father was of my mother?

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them...