Gaborone Quotes

#1. Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.

Indu Muralidharan

#2. When she had lived in Bobonong the houses seemed perfectly normal to her and the house in which her family lived had seemed quite comfortable. But looking at it with eyes that had seen Gaborone, and the large buildings there, their house had seemed mean and cramped.

Alexander McCall Smith

#3. Look ... it's empty ... as empty as a politician's promise!

Harry Blackstone Jr.

#4. Lola genuinely smiled for the first time in months.

Cathlin Shahriary

#5. Not much was said of Gaberone except its riches and its danger. The prisons were said to be in-escapable, the shanty towns cheap, the police didn't bother the illegal immigrants unless they were caught committing crimes. A dangerous paradise.

Thabo Katlholo

#6. Sarah's friendship was one of my most treasured possessions.

Dani Atkins

#7. Technology makes the world a new place.

Shoshana Zuboff

#8. I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Jonathan Lethem

#9. In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.

Aimee Bender

#10. I suppose building a healthy family is possible. Maybe what children really need is simple. Maybe they just need somebody to show them it's okay to be human.

Donald Miller