Trust your nose, but make sure it’s pointing in the right direction.
There was a jauntiness in the young woman’s manner that appealed to Isabel. And then there was the accent, which was not Scottish, but from somewhere in Northern Ireland and not unlike Georgina Camero...
There are many sick vehicles here, and I cannot leave them.They are not dying, said Mma Makutsi firmly. They will still be here when we come back.
That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.
She knew as well as anyone that the world could be a place of trial and sorrow, that there was injustice and suffering and heartlessness - there was enough of all that to fill the great Kalahari twice...
Emma was happy. She realized that happiness is something that springs from the generous treatment of others, and that until one makes that connection, happiness may prove elusive.
Could you say that your business had expanded if it had gone from owning one teapot to two? Somehow she thought that Dr. Profit would answer both those questions with a shake of his head. Of course, s...
But that’s what the world is all about, Jamie. Stories. Stories explain everything, bring everything together.
Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl....
And they both had the land about them; the sky that went on forever, it seemed, and was filled with sun and with the air that they all needed, that the cattle needed, that the animals in the Kalahari...
And the problem was that there was a positive epidemic of narcissism, encouraged by commercial manipulation and by the shallow values of Hollywood films. And interestingly enough, the real growth area...
I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the peopl...
[Love] may bring surprise, joy, despair and, occasionally, perfect happiness.
When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.
Those images of those old places, the places you come from, never completely disappear. They remain with you, those scraps of memory; those pictures somewhere in your mind of how things were, of what...
There were two classes of persons upon whom a duty of virtually absolute confidentiality rested: doctors and lovers.
There may be no book on the mothers of poets, or artists in general, but it might one day be written and would be, I think, an enlightening read.
The world is full of twenty-year-olds, she thought, all of them blind. Obed
Sometimes it was important simply to get out. It did not matter where you went, as long as you got out of the office, or the kitchen, or any other place where duty required you to be, and went to some...
She was, he reflected, one of his closest friends, in a rather curious, slightly old-fashioned way.