“Already many of the memories of the previous two weeks had faded: the smell of that small hotel in St. Andrews; that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Memories of that which we have lost are curious things - weeks, months, even years may pass without recollection of them and… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“There’s a poem about onions,” she said. “It’s about how memory is like an onion—it makes you cry.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Those images of those old places, the places you come from, never completely disappear. They remain with you, those scraps of memory;… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him,… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full… — 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
