Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine Quotes

“Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less…” She thought: when will it come—that moment when that no longer resonates with people too tired of others and their demands, too exhausted to open their doors to those in need, too overwhelmed by the scale of humanity in all its billions to value individual human life.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine

“especially when it came to his triumphant denunciations of his political enemies, each of whom, she suspected, were only too relieved that it was him rather than they who had been caught. She”
― Alexander McCall Smith, Sweet, Thoughtful Valentine