The vet and the wound
We should all busy ourselves in being who we are,
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
The ordinary people of Africa tended not to have room in their hearts for hatred. They were sometimes foolish, like people anywhere, but they did not bear grudges, as Mr Mandela had shown the world.
Teaching is so demanding, and you get so little support. That pinch will have done Olive no harm - probably a lot of good.''Do you really think so?''Yes,' said Matthew. But then he went on, rather sad...
Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.
She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like...
Saying sorry does not make you look small—it makes you look big.
Protestations of happiness could sound almost boasting to those whose happiness is incomplete. One did not boast of perfect skin to one affected by dermatitis; for the same reason, perhaps, one should...
Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.
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...
Not forgiving was like scratching at a sore to keep the healing scab from forming.
Myth is a cloud based upon a shadow based upon the movement of the breeze.
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.
It was all very well being a modern society, but the advent of prosperity and the growth of the towns was a poisoned cup from which one should drink with the greatest caution. One might have all the t...
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.
He smiled as he imagined the composite Jamie/Isabel, who would play the bassoon, read philosophy, interfere in other people's affairs rather too much, drive a green Swedish car and make legendary pota...
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 now, sitting in the van with Charlie, who was looking ahead of them and not really paying much attention to where they currently were, she reflected on the possibility that young men were a comple...
A society that undermined its teachers and their authority only dug away at its own sure foundations.