“And food made with love, she thought, tasted better-everybody knew that. It just did.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“There's a difference, I think, between falling in love and knowing it.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I think that the measure of whether a life has been a good one is how much love there has been in… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It's easy to be foolish... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her… — 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
“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
When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
A wedding was a strange ceremony, she thought, with all those formal words, those solemn vows made by one to another; whereas… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“So it was in Botswana, almost everywhere; ties of kinship, no matter how attenuated by distance or time, linked one person to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“But for each person who is made happy by love, there will be many for whom it turns out to be a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“We can be confident in our dealings with the world when what the world sees is the outer person, with all the… — 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
“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
“She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our… — 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
“It's easy to be foolish... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do… — 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
“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
“..what moved me was that I had found something I didn't think could exist. And that thing - the thing that I… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“In bed that night, in the darkness, with the illuminated dial of her alarm clock glowing from the bedside table, she asked… — 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
“If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways… — 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
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
“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
“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
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had so much love to give - she had always felt that - and now there was somebody to whom she… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Out in Saxe-Coburg Street she stood still for a moment and looked at the gardens. He kissed me, she thought. He made… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“So what is this love that comes with being married?" ... "Being fond of somebody? Being nice? Wanting them not to go… — 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
“In bed that night, in the darkness, with the illuminated dial of her alarm clock glowing from the bedside table, she asked… — 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
“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
“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
