“And that is why we must answer her hatred with love. I can't say whether it will change her in her heart… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...has it ever occurred to people that love at first sight might be the rule rather than the exception? How many people… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go;… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“We all had to say goodbye, sooner or later, to those we love--or they had to say goodbye to us. Those were… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“There is plenty of work for love to do. That was a wonderful way of putting it, and she had told him… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Love is nothing out of the ordinary, even if we think it is; even if we idealise it, celebrate it in poetry,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Many waters cannot quench love: the anthem's setting remained in her ears, repeating itself; a tune so powerful that it might gird… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Love was like rain; there could be periods of drought when it seemed that love would never return, would never make its… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...because love can come, if you believe in it and behave as if it exists. That was the case, too, with free… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“You have each other, thought Isabel.But was that enough? Even when one was in love, it was not really enough just to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to become the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
“Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni,” she asked, “do you think that our souls grow as we get older?” He did not answer immediately, but when he did,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share
