“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“...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 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
“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
“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
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 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
The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“What a strange,old-fashioned thing to think. Bless you. But what other way was there of saying that you wanted only good for… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The unmerited dislike of another made one think less of oneself. We are enlarged by the love of others; we are diminished… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The sharing of a book is a statement—a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them? — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He evidently did not care that they were in full view of a cluster of dog-owners walking their dogs. He stopped and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“[Love] may bring surprise, joy, despair and, occasionally, perfect happiness.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“That's the curious thing about love, isn't it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more… — 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
