“There were times when life’s problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“her daddy, as she called him, and of whom she thought at some point every day, every single day, and whom she… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“...She was, in fact, often wrong--and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did not know it.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“People did not spend enough time sitting and talking, she thought, and it was important that sitting and talking time be preserved.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again… — 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
“She could turn away and say that they had nothing to do with her, or she could accept that they had somehow… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She would give him the benefit of the doubt, as she always did: her experience had taught her that the names we… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Isabel saw the intimacy of the gestures and felt immediately empty, a sensation so physical and so overwhelming that she felt for… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“This was loyalty of a sort which was rare in an age of self-indulgence. It was an old-fashioned virtue of the type… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She felt that she had revealed something to Cat, and with revealing something about oneself there always comes a sense of lightening… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It just did not make sense; unless, of course, as she had suggested, we all have a weak point, an area of… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most people, when it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And she, Isabel, had gone along with this and all the time what was happening was she was becoming increasingly possessive of… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“You cannot divide a child's heart in two" she had observed to Mma Makutsi, "and yet that is what some people wish… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“By the time Domenica arrived at the Gothic Revival sandstone building on Queen Street, she had put out of her mind all… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She meant it, and as she spoke, she thought how strange it was that we so very rarely said complimentary things 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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