˜It is better to have a husband who knows what you are wearing than to have one who doesn’t even notice. ˜
˜The economy. That’s the problem. The economy. Everything is going well and people are very happy and then along comes the economy. Ow! And suddenly there are no jobs any longer and we’re back to where we started.˜
˜You might think they were just stories about cattle and the men who owned them, but of course they were much more than that: they were stories about Botswana and what it meant to be a Motswana.˜
˜A gearbox will not forget you if you are unkind to it. Gearboxes have a long memory – just like elephants.˜
˜It was possible, she thought, that one wept more for those one did not know than for those one did, because there was more to regret; to lose somebody without the chance of ever showing love was a heavy loss indeed.˜
˜Planting lawn in Botswana was like planting a cactus at the North Pole: it did not make sense.˜
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