People talk of the wrench of parting, and that, he felt, was exactly what it was. Take a metal object off a magnet and one would experience that - there was the draw, the tug, the flow of the bond eve...
People stuck by others for years and years, in the face of all odds, and it should be relief, not disbelief, that one felt on witnessing it.
Mma Makutsi pondered this. Why are there fewer and fewer gentlemen, Mma Ramotswe?It is our fault, Mma. It is the fault of ladies.Why is that?Because we have allowed men to stop behaving as gentlemen,...
Minty’s in a bit of trouble, and he was not surprised. He said something about her sailing too close to the wind.
Life happens, she thought; whatever we do, life just happens.
Late people do not altogether leave us, she thought; they are still with us in memories such as that, wherever we are, no matter what time of day it was or how we were feeling, they were there, still...
It's easy to be foolish... It's dead simple, really. All you have to be is human and to allow yourself to do the human things, like fall in love with somebody when you know that there's no point and w...
It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people.
It was perfectly possible to portray scientific knowledge as socially determined – and therefore not true in any real sense – when one was safe on the ground in Paris; but would you ask the same quest...
It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none.
It was an innocent enough activity, after all; like looking at the sky, perhaps, when the sun was going down and had made the clouds copper-red, or looking at a herd of fine cattle moving slowly over...
It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to become the other, is such a true and revealing symptom of love, its most obvious clue...
It is I who will beat her if she tries anything. I am a traditionally built lady, you know, and if there are any bad people who try to push me around—or to beat me—then I can sit on them very quickly....
If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out, she said. Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is- a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers.
I worry about you a great deal, Mma. I worry that you will take all the cares of the world on your shoulders and that you will collapse under the weight. I worry that you will open your heart to so ma...
I watched him walk down the path from the house and then off on to the dusty road. People do that in India. When they reach a certain time of life, they sometimes just walk off and become holy men and...
Her voice rose in her refutation. We are not corrupt, Rra. Yes, he said enthusiastically. That’s just the right thing to say, Mma. Just right. And anyway, this corruption nonsense—what are they talkin...
He could not imagine being interested in that way in somebody like Mma Mateleke; how would one ever get to plant a kiss on such a person if she was always talking? It would be difficult to get one’s l...
But emotions and detective work did not always mix; there was something about that in Clovis Andersen’s The Principles of Private Detection. What had he said? Emotions have the same effect as a magnet...
As she spoke, Isabel found herself thinking of the power of words. A single word, a phrase, a sentence or two could have such extraordinary power; could end a world, break a heart or, as in this case,...