““The view from my window was of a sloping green field, dotted with a few muddy sheep; the same lush, safe, soggy world that nearly fifteen years earlier was all Lulu, Damien, and I had ever known. Until Dad had said, "We're going to Botswana." I felt profoundly homesick, for the first time in my life. Knowing I'd be back, I'd never minded leaving before. There was the comforting thought of returning.””
![“Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert…” quote by Alexander McCall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1a3/alexander-mccall-smith-372_africa_everything-all-those-great-things-had-ha_2150106.jpg)
![“If the lord came back today, [Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni] thought, he would probably be a mechanic, he reflected. That would be a great honour for mechanics everywhere. And there is no doubt but that e would choose Africa: Israel was far too dangerous these days. In fact, the more one thought about it…” quote by Alexander McCall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/49e/alexander-mccall-smith-372_quote_if-the-lord-came-back-today-mr-j-l-b-mat_1574820.jpg)
