Number 5 in the series, continues the development of the remarkable characters and their setting. By now I'm firmly addicted to this series, and i will miss it when i finish.
Quotes:
Why, she asked herself, why keep a wound open when forgiveness can close it?
He was a good man, which, when all is said and done, is the finest thing that you can say about any man. He was a good man.
“They will ruin cars left, right, and centre,” he said. “That is what will happen to them. There will be great sadness among the cars of Botswana.”
Mr J.L.B. Matekoni stood back respectfully. The revealing of an engine of this nature—an engine which was older than the Republic of Botswana itself—was a special moment, and he did not want to show unseemly curiosity as the beautiful piece of engineering was exposed to view.
“Yes,” said Mma Ramotswe. “We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.”
She approached him carefully, as one always should when coming across somebody reading the Bible,
But there was a great deal that people did not understand and would only learn through bitter experience. In her view, one of these things was the truth of the old African saying that it takes an entire village to raise a child. Of course it does; of course it does. Everybody in a village had a role to play in bringing up a child—and cherishing it—and in return that child would in due course feel responsible for everybody in that village. That is what makes life in society possible. We must love one another and help one another in our daily lives.
“Nkosi Sikeleli Afrika,” God Bless Africa, give her life, watch over her children.
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