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“I think,” Marco said thoughtfully, “this was perhaps the beginning of British orderliness.” “How do you mean?” I asked. “In Rome, the city just... happened. It grew in layers, one on top of another, chaotic and beautiful. But this – “ he ...more
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Alexander McCall Smith
“Angus turned to Domenica. "This view always makes me feel sad. I don't know why, but it does." He drew in his breath, savouring the freshness of the air. Freshly mown grass was upon it, and the smell of lavender, too, from Elspeth's kitchen garden. "Well, perhaps not sad--more wistful, perhaps, which is one notch below actual sadness.”
Alexander McCall Smith, Love in the Time of Bertie

Jenny Colgan
“If you’ve ever flown into London, you’ll know that they often have to put you in a holding pattern, where you circle about, waiting for a landing slot. And I never usually mind it; I like seeing the vast expanse of the huge city below me, that unfathomable number of people busying away, the idea that every single one of them is full of hopes and dreams and disappointments, street after street after street, millions and millions of souls and dreams. I always find it pleasingly mind-boggling.”
Jenny Colgan, The Cafe by the Sea

Alexander McCall Smith
“But Domenica thought: I really would like things to be forever. I would like to be able to sit at this table once a week, perhaps, with these friends. I would like to talk about the things we talk about, the small things, whatever happened in the world. I would like to wake up in the morning and not think that things were getting worse. I would like not to have to listen to the exchange of insults between politicians. I would like to hear of people co-operating with one another and helping others and bringing succour and comfort to the needy and... and I would like not to think that we were still in the seventeenth century, as divided amongst ourselves as they were at that time, pitted against each other, with one vision of the good battling another, and people despising others for their opinions.”
Alexander McCall Smith, Love in the Time of Bertie

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
“I watched too, with that sort of lonely delight--the one shadow upon it being that it is so lonely--with which all one's life one is accustomed to watch beautiful and vanishing things.”
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, An Unsentimental Journey Through Cornwall

Alexander McCall Smith
“It was the beauty of the country before them that had done it. Scotland was a place of attenuated light, of fragility, of a beauty that broke the heart.”
Alexander McCall Smith, Love in the Time of Bertie

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