There are plenty of people who might prefer to go sideways. What about them? How are we to inspire them?
The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour.
Sometimes the world seemed so unfair: good people were tricked or bullied by bad people, and the bad people seemed to get away with it. If only he could do something about it, he said to himself. But...
So what is this love that comes with being married? ... Being fond of somebody? Being nice? Wanting them not to go away? ... the line struck me with its poetic force. I didn't want you to go away... I...
She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go; she had been locked into a dead relationship and now the last dried skin of it had fallen away,...
Perhaps this was a concomitant of freedom: if people were free, then some of them, at least, would be free of the constraints of good taste. Perhaps
Of course you could not allow yourself to think too much about these issues. One had to get on and to attend to the day-to-day business of living.
None of us, she thought, wants the world we know to come to an end; we do not want familiar things to be taken from us.
None of us is immune to shipwreck. Come, beckons the fatal shore: come and die on my white sands, it said. And we do.
No sailor could be lonelier than a man standing in the middle of our land, with the miles and miles of blue about him.
Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.
Most children have become very surly. That is because they are not taught to think about others any more. They are, quite simply, spoiled.
Martha simply did not know that virtually everything she said was inappropriate, and so there was no point in remonstrating with her.
Manfred's interventions, he thought, had all the characteristics of radio jamming, designed to stop anybody else talking.
Make sure that the road is always clear for your enemy to leave’?
Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day.
Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking tickets by soft-hearted traffic wardens; b...
Lightning always strikes in the same place twice, said Mma Ramotswe. Whatever people say to the contrary.
It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
It was a job that suited Stinger perfectly, as he was always happy when snarling, and snarling at sharks is as snarly a job as anyone can imagine. Of course it was possible that one day he might meet...