It is such an easy thing to do—to touch another in sympathy—but it is such a hard thing too.
Love had transformed the world for me. Transformed it.
She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but she had never thought it would be enough for her. Yet it was.
Rich people are just people, said Mma Ramotswe. I have not met a rich person yet who isn’t just the same as us. Being happy or unhappy has nothing to do with being rich.
Of day it was or how we were feeling, they were
Inside every one of us, thought Mma Ramotswe, there is the child we once were, the child that was unsure about the world and our place in it.
It was a pink sort of smell- a smell that seemed to get bigger as you smelled it and then burst, just like the popping of a bubble
She is a good housemother, that one, said Mma Ramotswe. Mma Potokwane agreed. Whenever I hear people say that the country is going to the dogs—and there are such people, you know, Mma…
Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.
Special things have a way of surviving.
Eating with others was different from just talking to them—it was an act of commitment, a recognition of shared humanity. We all share these physical needs, it said; we are brothers and sisters in our...
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’?
Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.
The names we gave to others, and the things we accused them of, often said more about us than they did about them.
There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.
Mma Ramotswe found it difficult to imagine what it would be like to have no people. There were, she knew, those who had no others in this life, who had no uncles, or aunts, or distant cousins of any d...
Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you know...
You can't deceive your own mother. That's the one person, the only one, to whom you will always be transparent.
Do you think your dog might have been drunk when he bit these people, Mr Lordie?
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...
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