I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.