The Forgotten Affairs of Youth Quotes

“..."Charming people, when not actively shooting one another," a friend had once said, which was so unkind, but, like so many unkind comments, had a grain of truth in it. They did shoot one another and had been doing so for centuries. They did bicker over and brood on long-dead history--or history that should be long dead. The problem with history was that it refused to lie down and die.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“He seemed genuinely astonished. "You admire me?"

"Yes," she said gravely. "All of us do things we regret--that's part of being human. And sometimes, I think, moral quality reveals itself not so much in what we do, but in what we later say about what we have done....”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“Leave them,” said Isabel. “Jamie can iron them himself. It’s very therapeutic for men to iron. Therapeutic for women, that is.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“Cat was searching for the company of one who would make her happy. Some of us did not have to look long for that person, some of us found him or her with little difficulty; others had longer to look, and had less luck.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“Metaphors were so bloody: people shot messengers,, flogged dead horses, cut the throats of their competitors. Perhaps that was life; perhaps that's what it was really like.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“...She was, in fact, often wrong--and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did not know it.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

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― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“MIST HUNG OVER the fields of East Lothian, the rich farming land that lay between Edinburgh and the North Sea coast. There was a local name for this, for the rolling banks of white that came in off the sea, drifting across the low ground, filling valleys, lapping at the feet of hills; this was the haar, a word that Isabel had always found onomatopoeic. If the haar made a sound, which it did not, it would be “haar,” a soft breathing out, an exhalation of slightly moist air from the depths of the lungs.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“Nobody felt very much ashamed of anything anymore, Isabel thought. You could do what you liked and then speak about it at great length on a confessional television show and nobody would bat an eyelid. And while that revealed a healthier attitude when it came to dealing with things that were better unconcealed, or with things that should not involve shame at all, it also meant that one of the main reasons for social restraint had been removed.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“That was the problem with being a philosopher: it was not easy. As a philosopher one could not believe in just one thing; one had to explore the possibility that what one thought was true might be false; that what one wanted to believe might not be what one really should hold to be true. So much for the examined life: how uncomfortable it could be.
But at least she knew what she wanted for lunch.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“Moral Philosophy for two-year-olds, she thought. Don't throw food. It was as good a starting point as any to begin the teaching of responsibility towards the world around us. And it was helpful to back it up with some justification too: That's not nice. Again, a simple expression said it all.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs of Youth

“Mushroom people are fond of saying, ‘There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.’ ”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“You know something?” he said to Jamie. “I’ve never believed in God, but I do believe in his love.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“We should not be too surprised by the kindness of strangers, as it is always there.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“There was a jauntiness in the young woman’s manner that appealed to Isabel. And then there was the accent, which was not Scottish, but from somewhere in Northern Ireland and not unlike Georgina Cameron’s; the English that Shakespeare would have spoken, preserved by centuries of relative linguistic isolation.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“skyline reveals a city’s purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“Metaphors were so bloody: people shot messengers, flogged dead horses, cut the throats of their competitors. Perhaps that was life; perhaps that was what it was really like.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“IF EITHER OF THEM had felt tetchy, the concert put them both in a good mood.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“I sometimes find myself thinking: wouldn’t it be far less complicated to have a job like that? To sell things? To order cheese and salamis and all the rest and not worry about what we should do and how we should do it?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“A life without moments of unhappiness would be monotonous, I would have thought.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“An Englishman was reflecting on the different words that people use for fish. ‘Isn’t it strange,’ he said, ‘that the French say le poisson, the Spanish say el pescado, and the English call it fish—which is what it is.’ ”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“Some knowledge is a fish,” she muttered. “Some is a serpent.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“have misgivings about people not having a spiritual life. It’s so … so shallow. I sometimes think that life without a spiritual dimension must be like being made of cardboard—and as deep and satisfying.” She paused. “I feel that there is something there—some force, or truth, perhaps—to put it at its most general. I sense it, and I suppose I’d even go so far as to say that I yearn for it. I want it to be. Maybe that’s God.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“Society may be post-Christian, but could hardly ignore its Judeo-Christian past; we did not, after all, come from nowhere.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“Political scandals, economic disaster, suffering in all its familiar forms—these were the daily staple of a disaster-prone, uneasy planet.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“There were times when life’s problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“there is something there—some force, or truth, perhaps—to put it at its most general. I sense it, and I suppose I’d even go so far as to say that I yearn for it. I want it to be. Maybe that’s God. But I find it difficult to accept any statement as to his identity. And as for claims to be the sole interpreter of that force—the sort of claim made by religions that tell you that they have the sole answer—well, what can one say about such arrogance …”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth

“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but she had never thought it would be enough for her. Yet it was.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Forgotten Affairs Of Youth