Small ones too, Mma Sometimes big problems are really tiny ones when you look at them in the right way.
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.
She brought a chair into the room and placed it alongside the top of his bed. Then she held his hand as he drifted off to sleep. It was so small in her own hand, and it felt warm and dry. She pressed...
It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.
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
Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed.
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
If you lived in a house your parents lived in, then you would not have had to buy it. But the house itself represented inherited wealth, and in some eyes, that was somehow tainted.
If people have ghosts, then why shouldn't other things have them? What makes us so special that only we can have ghosts?
Es ist ein Zeichen geistiger Reife, seine Meinung zu ändern, wenn man merkt, dass man im Unrecht ist.
But he was an only child and an only son, and for a mother in such a position it is not always easy to accept that another woman will eventually enter her son’s life and, if all goes according to plan...
And then I awoke, and just as Auden did when he awoke from his dream of the croquet match, I felt that I had been vouchsafed a vision. It was a feeling of utter elation and goodwill—in other words, a...
A woman sees more than a man sees. That is well-known.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
Wise men are remembered, they always are.
There was any number of men like that, waiting for an attractive girl that they could latch on to and whose life they could slowly destroy.
Away. Or
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the o...
That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from...
Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.