Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
Alexander McCall SmithThere are many women whose lives would be immeasurably improved by widowhood, but one should not always point that out.
Alexander McCall SmithDaughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.
Alexander McCall Smith