“When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.” WantHumansStoriesShowsInterestEmotionalLoversReleaseVainCommentConfessionTrophiesFrailtyHuman Frailties Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.” ThinkingStillsAnimalEmotionalLoversOccasionsMeatCowsSheepPigsAnimal LoveSophisticationThink TwiceAnimal Lover Author:Bryan Fuller