I am blessed and being blessed is something more than just having something. It is a state of mind in which the good of the world is illuminated, it's understood. It is as if one is vouchsafed a visio...
His particular insight was that we need to be at home; all his concerns with division within ourselves, with the tragic flaws in our nature, with the thwarting of love—all these point to the need that...
Her friend who treated her maid badly was not a wicked person. She behaved well towards her family and she had always been kind to Mma Ramotswe, but when it came to her maid—and Mma Ramotswe had met t...
Her country had never been aggressive, had never espoused violence, had never taken sides in the squabbles of others. She wondered how people could sleep if they knew that somebody, in their name, was...
He took to wearing a Greek merchant navy captain’s cap, and spending his mornings at the marina telling the staff what to do. Sure thing, Captain Eddie, they replied. But they never did what he asked...
He took a deep breath. ‘To marry me,’ he said quietly. It was easier than he thought. Icarus did not fall from the sky; the ground did not open; the earth did not wobble on its trajectory.
He seemed genuinely astonished. You admire me?Yes, she said gravely. All of us do things we regret--that's part of being human. And sometimes, I think, moral quality reveals itself not so much in what...
He looked up from his stew. Mma Ramotswe, he said, you can do anything. Nothing is too hard for a person like you—nothing. You are very good at doing everything, Mma, and anything you do, Mma
He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the white sky across the endless, endless bush,...
Do not be afraid of people who lurk in the shadows. Stand up for what you believe in. The people in the shadows are no match for people who are not afraid of light.
Cattle had no vote, nor the words to express a view, but their feelings ranked above just about everything else in the country.
By the time Domenica arrived at the Gothic Revival sandstone building on Queen Street, she had put out of her mind all thought of Antonia's torrid affair - at least she assumed it was torrid, and anyw...
But who doesn't have a lot of unread books? It's nice, though, to know they are there.
But then men do not see things the same way we do, she thought. They have different eyes.
But that miracle would eventually arrive, as it always had, and the landscape would turn from brown to green within hours under the kiss of the rain. And there were other colours that would follow the...
But only if youses shift yoursels and get in. He used the demotic plural of you, a common feature of speech in Scotland.
But look at it now: a detective agency, right here in Gaborone, with me, the fat lady detective, sitting outside and thinking these thoughts about how what is one thing today becomes quite another thi...
Although she had only started being a detective, Precious was well aware that you had to be able to show people something if you wanted them to believe it.
What moved me was that I had found something I didn't think could exist. And that thing - the thing that I found - was very simple. Most people know all about it and have never really doubted it becau...
Wrong to think the less of another for what he or she was. There was no moral obligation to others, nor necessarily to enthuse over them, but we did have to recognize their equal worth.