Heather Mann

“...has it ever occurred to people that love at first sight might be the rule rather than the exception? How many people fall in love gradually rather than on the first occasion they meet the other person?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Trains and Lovers

“The new lover, of a few weeks standing, may seem more precious than friends of decades.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Trains and Lovers

“Love is nothing out of the ordinary, even if we think it is; even if we idealise it, celebrate it in poetry, sentimentalise it in coy valentines. Love happens to just about everyone; it is like measles or the diseases of childhood; it is as predictable as the losing of milk teeth, or the breaking of a boy's voice.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Trains and Lovers

“Everything is possible in love. In the heart of each of us there can be many rooms, and sometimes there are.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Trains and Lovers