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She and her parents had a finite amount of time left together, and from now until one of their deaths, that time would be cut up and concentrated into these tiny bursts. She wanted these bursts to be laced with happy memories, yet the three ...more
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Alexander McCall Smith
“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

Alexander McCall Smith
“His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?”
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith
“We are the ones who first ploughed the earth when Modise (God) made it,” ran an old Setswana poem. “We were the ones who made the food. We are the ones who look after the men when they are little boys, when they are young men, and when they are old and about to die. We are always there. But we are just women, and nobody sees us.”
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith
“There are many words for push, take, shove, carry, load, and no words for love, or happiness, or the sounds which birds make in the morning.”
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith
“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
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