We are human and vulnerable, whatever our individual situation: The moon looks on them all The Healers and the brilliant talkers The eccentrics and the silent walkers The dumpy and the tall.
We are born to talk to other people, ... we are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in the shade of the acacia tree and talk about things that happened the day before. We were not born...
We all have people in our lives we don’t really choose as friends but with whom we’re, well, lumbered, I suppose. Heart-sink friends.
We all have Proustian moments, but don’t really know about it until we read Proust.
We all had to say goodbye, sooner or later, to those we loved—or they had to say goodbye to us. Those were the only two possibilities that this world allowed. But no matter how much we tried to face u...
Very... She left the word hanging. Very unfinished, thought Isabel. The woman finished her sentence. Very beautiful. Oh, really! thought Isabel. The verdict from others was much the same. Oh well, tho...
Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?
To be free Is often to be lonely. He would unite The unequal moieties fractured By our own well-meaning sense of justice Would restore to the larger the wit and will The smaller possess but can only u...
Time and time again people showed better qualities than we might dare to hope for, sometimes against all expectation.
There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't do that, she thought. You just can't.
There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time ago. And what was the point in doing this if the effect was merely to p...
There was corruption at every turn, and those who stood for honesty and integrity were more and more vulnerable, more and more isolated amongst the hordes of people who simply had no moral sense. And
There are some very inventive adults, Mma. When you listen to them, you have to divide everything they say by two, and then take away ten. As you have to do with some politicians.
There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds.
The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. They looked away,
The trouble with technology is that it’s dehumanised us – it’s removed the restraints of ordinary human interactions. So we lose the notion that the person with whom we’re dealing is a person like us,...
The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa
The night is a very bad time for questions to which there are no answers. Mr Badule looked at her. You are very right, my sister. There is
That was what the story of Goldilocks and the three bears was all about: breach of trust.
That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.