“And he thought for a moment how stupid our society had become, that its nanny-like concern for risk should prevent one man… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“But we all waste opportunities,’ said Domenica. Every single one of us. Every young person does it. It’s because we think we… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Something terrible happened and people began to shake. It was the reminder that frightened them; the reminder of just how close to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and went to heaven.… — 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
“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
“These days people seemed to suggest that you should talk about everything, even those things that people never talked about in the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It was the same with friendship. Disagreement between friends and spouses, too had to be carefully handled. If the time you spent… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He represents innocence, and innocence has taken such a profound battering in our times. We have mocked it. We have sullied it.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that… — 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
