Quote by: Alexander McCall Smith

She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him, yes, but she still did not like to remember. And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating.


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Author Bio


  • NameAlexander McCall Smith
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornAugust 24, 1948
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize