David Campton

“The size of one’s house might bear a relationship to the size of one’s opinion of oneself, but it had nothing to do with one’s real worth.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“Truth had a way of coming out on top—and it was just as well for everybody that it did. If there ever came a day when truth was so soundly defeated that it never emerged, but sank, instead, under the sheer volume of untruth that the world produced, then that would be a sad day for Botswana, and for the people who lived in Botswana. It would be a sad day for the whole world, that day.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“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

“...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies