There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.
Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like...Professor Hawki...
Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman’s knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and...
Now, as he finished the last of his porridge, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni reminded himself that the one thing he felt certain about when it came to women was that you could never be sure.
Now constipation was quite a different matter...It would be dreadful for the whole world to know about troubles of that nature. She felt terribly sorry for people who suffered from constipation, and s...
My old friend, he began, is down below, his face we’ll see no more, for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4
Most of us are quite selfish when it comes to our children, you know. We want things from them: love, the satisfaction of seeing them do well, and so on. Plenty of parents don't think just of their ch...
Love and compassion are the only balm
It is such an easy thing to do—to touch another in sympathy—but it is such a hard thing too.
Innocency: what a wonderful word, and different, in some indefinable way, from innocence. The difference, she thought, lay in the poetry.
If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time.
Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.
But shall we inspect what we see beyond? he went on. Please, after you… Elspeth thought: I am so fortunate. I am married to a man who says Please, after you. How fortunate is that? And she thought of...
When she had those dreams at night, he was there, as if he had never died, although she knew, even in the dream, that he had. One day she would join him, she knew, whatever people said about how we ca...
She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on one...
Steamships insult the dignity of distance,
From that, there was nothing.
You haven't offended me at all. You've made me think. That's all.
We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
There were many people who were unhappy, and wanted to move. Often they wished to come to the more fortunate countries—such as Botswana—in order to make more of their lives. That was understandable, a...