At the Reunion Buffet
Alexander McCall Smith
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Can you forgive her? Can you do that? There was no response. Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier. And? And then you will be able to forgive yourself—and ask others to forgive you.”
“People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary”
“…there is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice—the rituals and so on—the other form of faith involves actually believing in it.”
“…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.”
“…reunions, she felt, were not much more than a scratching at the vague itch of memory. And like scratching, they rarely helped—indeed, scratching often made matters worse, as any dermatologist would tell you.”
“…people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.”
“What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.”
“Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?”
“Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.”
“The reunion, she decided, was an unnecessary and stressful complication to life. We did not need to reheat cold dishes from the past.”
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