A sleeping partner? That’s it. I always thought that was an odd expression, Mma. I always thought of a sleeping partner as being somebody who sat with his head on his desk and slept.
A life without moments of unhappiness would be monotonous, I would have thought.
Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
Ако човек, изчаквайки в нещо като предверие момента на своето раждане, можеше да си избере националността, не би ли било доста изкусително да поискаш да се родиш като италианец?
People are very slow to say sorry. I
It,’ he said. ‘People change their
Will you be my friend? Bertie asked. And then added: Just for Paris. You don’t have to be my friend forever – just for Paris.
There’s a poem about onions, she said. It’s about how memory is like an onion—it makes you cry.
There were women in the sacred dance group, no doubt, and one of these might be taken aside, woman to woman, and asked to help see that he came to no harm. England was full of helpful women, Berthea w...
There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars...
There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry, to start the healing tha...
The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themsel...
The husband should say to the reverend: ‘And I promise not to defy my wife.
Telling a person with toothache that there are others with greater toothache than their own was no help at all.
Some genealogies claimed to be able to trace the Maclean ancestry even further back, going as far as Julius Caesar, and, in some cases, admittedly more tendentiously, to the ancient Celtic god of the...
Society may be post-Christian, but could hardly ignore its Judeo-Christian past; we did not, after all, come from nowhere.
One did not walk around the town with one’s birth certificate stuck on one’s back; why then should clothes have their labels on the outside? It was a very vulgar display, she felt,
No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.
Moisturiser and a good cry: two things for modern men to think about.
It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and where people had a healthy curiosity as to who was who and where people had come from. It was very d...