There were countless injustices and difficulties in this world, but small points of light too, where the darkness was held back.
The shoes themselves were light green, with lowish heels (which were very important for comfort and walking; high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later).
The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
The forges of friendship, thought Angus, may be busy ones, but their dorrs are always open.
So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh...
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.
Problems have a way of solving themselves.
People’s lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless involvement, may make the difference between a life of hap...
One of the drawbacks to being a philosopher was that you became aware of what you should not do, and
Now that he had invited Tilly, William found himself trying to remember what she looked like. It was almost like going on a blind date, he thought, something that previously he would never have dreame...
Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
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...
It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother.
Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it
Elysian
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...
Do you think your dog might have been drunk when he bit these people, Mr Lordie?
Boys, men, she said. They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.
Arbroath
And the memory made her humble; for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful.