David Campton

“The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. They looked away,”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“That young man will go far, she said. I don’t know in what direction, but he will go far.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“Everything, it seemed to Mma Ramotswe, had a waiting list—except the government taxman and the call, when it came, to leave this world. You could not argue with the agents of either of these: you paid, and you went. But I am just on the waiting list…No, there is no waiting list for these things…”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine