In the Time of Five Pumpkins Quotes

“Willpower was the issue, she thought, and one day, she decided, she would do something about getting more of it. But not just yet…”
― Alexander McCall Smith , In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“Late people are still with us…yes, they were.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“An imperfect friend, she told herself, was better than no friend at all. Possibly. She would have to think about that, though: perhaps Mma Potokwane might have views on this. She would raise it with her when next they met, and she would see what Mma Potokwane had to say on the matter. Over a cup of tea, of course, and a slice…well, two slices, perhaps, of fruit cake.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“One thing that’s certain about cookies,’ Clovis Andersen wrote in the Principles of Private Detection, ‘is that they crumble’.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“Mma Potokwane frowned. ‘Men can sometimes get the wrong sort of friends, Mma. That is a known fact’.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“One’s friends might be here one moment, and then the next in the jaws of some crocodile somewhere.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“Do not wait until it is your last day or two on this earth to stop and gaze at the sky, to breathe in the morning air, to be grateful for the simple fact of being alive.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“It was hard to feel defeated by the world if you had a cup of red bush tea in your hand.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“Nobody ever looks back over her life, and says, “I wish I had drunk less tea,”’ Mma Ramotswe observed. Nor did one ever hear, at a funeral service, the words, ‘She drank far too much tea’.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins

“Words were dying, quietly and unlamented, through lack of use on the lips of younger people; it seemed, at times, that only the old remembered, and as they due course became silent, whole lexicons of vocabulary were heard no more.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, In the Time of Five Pumpkins