Shyla Strathman

“It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“We don't forget...Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, smells of places, of little things that happened to us and which come back, unexpectedly, to remind us of who we are.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature