“We do not like those who are completely available, who make themselves over to us entirely. They crowd us out. They make us feel uneasy.”

“For each of us, she thought, there is out completeness in another. Whether we find it, or it finds us, or it eludes all finding is a matter of moral luck.”

“She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like rain from above, changing the hearts of the wicked; transforming them”

“None of us knows how we will cope with snakes until the moment arises, and then most of us find out that we do not do it very well.”

“It is hard, she thought, it is hard for us to think of people who dislike us because none of us, in our heart, believes that we deserve the hatred of others.”

“...pleasure at hearing what all of us wanted to hear at least occasionally: that there was somebody who liked us, whatever our faults, and liked us sufficiently to say so. - Precious Ramotswe”

“How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.”