Isabel smiled. She liked a conversation that went in odd directions; she liked the idea of playfulness in speech. People could be so depressingly literal. Jamie
If you take God out of it, then right and justice become small, human things. And weak things too.
I think that the measure of whether a life has been a good one is how much love there has been in that life--love both given and received.
How remarkable it was, she thought, that we managed to anchor ourselves at all in this world, and that we did so by giving ourselves names and linking those names with places and other people.
He’s called Ottolenghi, that chef. And he deserves a tongue twister of his own. Lo, Ottolenghi lengthens leeks laterally. How about that? Or, Competent chefs count cous cous cautiously?
Hello, honey, he said. You are a very nice fat lady. I like a soft mattress. She drew in her breath. Then go home and lie down on your bed, she said. Go back to your wife. I know her, by the way.
He would sit down and consider the situation carefully. Not only did this help to identify the solution to the problem, but it also gave him the opportunity to remind himself that things were not real...
Everything, thought Mama Ramotswe, has been something before.
Everything could always be worse,’ she would say, ‘and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.’ She
Could you say that your business had expanded if it had gone from owning one teapot to two? Somehow
Children, like cats, made a house into a home, and the echoes of their presence lingered.
Cat was searching for the company of one who would make her happy. Some of us did not have to look long for that person, some of us found him or her with little difficulty; others had longer to look,...
But who doesn’t have a lot of unread books? It’s nice, though, just to know that they’re there.
But the real question, boys, is this: do we have a duty to do anything to stop things we may not like? Is it all right just to do nothing, provided that we don’t do anything that makes matters worse?
But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands.Mma Makutsi whistled. That is an amazing figure, she said. Where did you read that?Nowhere, c...
Anybody can lose,' cautioned Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. 'You need to remember that every time you win.
And here, she said to herself, is the victim of the witch hunt, or its modern equivalent. Not much has changed. Witchcraft or sexual harassment: the tactics of persecution were much the same - the loa...
Although she entirely understood the argument in favour of openness, there were limits to the extent to which one should speak frankly. She did not agree with the custom that was sometimes followed in...
We all have some things we are ashamed of.
Your mind like that, then you kept it in good order for a longer period of time, and you put off the day when you would be sitting in the sun, like some of the very old people, not exactly sure which...