Do not be ashamed to cry, Rra, said Mma Ramotswe. It is the way that things begin to get better. It is the first step.
Crisis. It was a time of sustained anxiety for anybody who read a newspaper or listened to the news on the radio, and that included his mother, Mrs. Florence Woodhouse, who was anxious at the best of...
By comparison with such lives, our days were inconsequential indeed, and yet even though our canvas was small, still we could paint a masterpiece—as long as we were content for it to be a miniature.
But we cannot always choose whose lives will become entangled with our own; these things happen to us, come to us uninvited, and Mma Ramotswe understood that well.
But the problem is that even if you know that is the best thing to do, you often don't do it....it is true. It's as if there were two people inside you. One says: do this. Another says: do that. But b...
But that's exactly the problem, retorted Isabel. We're all stuck with the same tired and trusted ideas. If we refused to entertain the possibility of something radically different, then we'd never mak...
But please be careful—and never, never think that you are justified in doing something wrong just because you are trying to do something right.
Brother Fox looked in. He saw two people. He saw them raise their glasses of wine to him, liquid that for him was suspended in the air, as if by a miracle.
Boys and men are the same people, in different clothes. Boys wear short trousers and men wear long trousers. But they are just the same if you take their trousers off.
Anna asked, Does that matter? What counts is the result, not the route by which one reaches the result. It’s often all a matter of luck. Ulf pondered this. The role of luck in human affairs had always...
And where does religion come into it? Are Protestant countries inherently less corrupt? No, she said. I don’t think it’s that simple. The issue, I suppose, is whether a culture stresses telling the tr...
And then, continued the clerk, they send those students out at the end of their course and say, ‘Go off and use those big words and long sentences to get all the good, high-paying jobs. And once you’r...
And the beautiful are forgiven; no matter how egregious their shortcomings, they are forgiven.
And that perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or complaining about them, was to accept that there were people who just saw things differ...
And that is why we must answer her hatred with love. I can't say whether it will change her in her heart - it probably won't. But if it makes her feel even just a little bit better about herself, she...
And it was young men in red cars who were the most dangerous of all. Such people were best given a wide berth, both in and out of the car.
And food made with love, she thought, tasted better-everybody knew that. It just did.
A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage.
Just like the affairs of the adult world--complicated rules and a history.
It must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.