Mallory Morgan > Mallory's Quotes

“As far as Kitty could tell, men were just as petty as women, but when they didn’t get their way, they didn’t resort to intrigues—they started wars.”
― Radha Vatsal, Murder Between the Lines

“You’re looking for a reason.” Each word carried the force of anger. “And sometimes, there isn’t a reason. Sometimes accidents are just accidents. Sometimes people - the best people, the most talented people - do unexpected things like walk in their sleep. You’re trying to make sense of a world that makes no sense most of the time.”
― Radha Vatsal, Murder Between the Lines

“That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which come back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are. And who am I?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“If more women were in power, they wouldn’t let wars break out,” she said. “Women can’t be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is—a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“And God was here anyway, before the missionaries came. We called him by a different name, then, and he did not live over at the Jews’ place; he lived here in Africa, in the rocks, in the sky, in places where we knew he liked to be.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“...how sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this (sit talking with friends and growing melons) and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all the money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person who understood, who realized how things really were; but these people were few and far between and the other white people often treated them with suspicion. ”
― Alexander Mccall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency