Sometimes it seemed as if the world itself was broken, that there was something wrong with all of us, something broken in such a way that it might not be put together again; but the holding of hands,...
Sir Seretse Khama,
She would give him the benefit of the doubt, as she always did: her experience had taught her that the names we gave to others, and the things we accused them of, often said more about us than they di...
She knew as well as anyone that the world could be a place of trial and sorrow, that there was injustice and suffering and heartlessness - there was enough of all that to fill the great Kalahari twice...
Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit library ladies’?
[Love] may bring surprise, joy, despair and, occasionally, perfect happiness.
The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind. Obed
That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.
Sorry about your sausage dog.
She was, he reflected, one of his closest friends, in a rather curious, slightly old-fashioned way.
No matter what precautions were taken, socks disappeared into a Bermuda Triangle for socks, a swirling vortex that swallowed one sock at a time, leaving its partner stranded.
Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to...
Love had transformed the world for me. Transformed it.
It was true, of course, there was an abnormal level of narcissism in our society, but it did not do, he told himself, to spend too much time going on about it. Society changed. Narcissism was about lo...
It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not...
How could a very thin woman do all the things that women needed to do: to carry children on their backs, to pound maize into flour out at the lands or the cattle post, to cart around the things of the...
He had only recently learned the word dramaturge and had been looking for opportunities to use it. He had eventually summoned up the courage to try it on Big Lou, but her espresso machine had hissed a...
DOING THE DONKEY WORK
Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not.
And if things go on as they are, in a few months the men will have cut all the trees down and that will be the end of the bubblegum tree - forever'.Nobody said anything. Billy thought that he had neve...