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

“...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

“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

“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