The Sweet Remnants of Summer Quotes

“Charlie had asked about God a few days before, and Jamie had found himself embarrassed by the question. Children always asked the obvious theological question about where God lived, and Charlie had asked just that, although he had appended to this a subsidiary question about whether God needed to go to the bathroom. Jamie had reported this conversation to Isabel, who had burst out laughing. “Of course that’s an obvious question to a child. In fact, a child who didn’t ask that would be missing something.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Sweet Remnants of Summer

“Shrugging off this mortal coil?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Sweet Remnants of Summer

“Jamie said he thought that people who had nothing to prove were usually charming in their dealings with others. “Only the insecure are nasty,” he said.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Sweet Remnants of Summer