The Pavilion in the Clouds Quotes

“If it took one woman ten minutes to change a baby, how long would it take one man to change one baby? A lot longer than ten minutes, she imagined, because he would spend fifteen minutes looking around for a woman to pass the baby onto to be changed.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Pavilion in the Clouds

“She thought that when you looked at your life, you should not judge it just by one part, as we can all make mistakes.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Pavilion in the Clouds

“the truth sometimes seemed too thin to satisfy our yearnings.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Pavilion in the Clouds