Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to see whether it made sense;she simply believed it, and...
A nudist? In Edinburgh? Does he realise what parallel we’re on?
A marriage, she had learned, is seldom what it seems to be on the surface; what appears to be the most equable, well settled of arrangements might be a seething mass of discontent and resentment under...
A change of oil…yes, that was what we all needed from time to time, whether we were an engine or a person. And there were other similarities to be explored. Engines had to be handled gently, as did pe...
Thinking about somebody every day of his life... oh yes, he said to himself. Oh yes, you do. You think about somebody. He fills your world. He is all about you, a presence, and you think about him; yo...
That is how marriages take place. If you left it up to men, they would never get there. Nobody would be married. You have to remind men to get married.
And with it would come that wonderful, unmistakable smell of rain, that smell of dust and water meeting that lingered for a few seconds in the nostrils and then was gone, and would be missed, sometime...
She was, in fact, often wrong--and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did know it.
We don’t see our parents as people. Your daddy was also a man—a very good man too—but he was a man.
Was particularly hard for women now, when there were so many children left without
People in Canada talk about feeling solitude? They sometimes call it a country of solitudes.
You may think this a strange story, but it is not. There are people whose lives are every bit as unusual as Bobby Box's--I can promise you that. Not all of them end as well, of course. For many people...
You do not have to read a book to understand how the world works. You just have to keep your eyes open.
You can only wear one pair of shoes at a time, she said. Rich people are like the rest of us—two feet, ten toes. We are all the same that way.
Words can make big things little, you know.
William’s weekend with his friends, Geoffrey and Maggie, was turning out to be neither restful nor enjoyable. Things could have been worse, of course: there must be weekends during which the hosts’ ho...
When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others, she thought, we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.
We forget, she thought. We think that we were always the way we are now, but we were not. —
We all know that it is women who make the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
There were times when an apology was best, she thought, even when one really had nothing to apologise for. If only people would say sorry sooner rather than later, Mma Ramotswe believed, much discord...