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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 850a392 | My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right; we try to find the easy way to navigate our way back to the easier path." He paused. "But the mountain is there to be crossed. It is on that pilgrimage, as we climb higher, that we are forced to shed the layers upon layers we have carried for so long. Then we find that our load is lighter and we have come to know something of ourselves in the peri.. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| c221a54 | Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start - | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 14692f4 | Use your training, Maisie, your heart, your intuition, and your love for your father to forge a new, even stronger, bond. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 8e7b8f4 | And I saw the eyes of the gazelle again in France [during WWI], and it struck me that perhaps a heartsick God had looked down and taken up a soul, leaving only the shell of a man." [of those who developed PTSD and/or "war neuroses"]... [In becoming a psychiatrist] I was really trying to create the conditions whereby a soul might be persuaded to join a man's body once a again, thus making him whole." | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 98f6a51 | Don't mind me askin', Miss - and I know it ain't none of my business, like - but why don't you take 'im up on the offer of a dinner? I mean, gettin' the odd dinner fer nuffin'ain't such a bad thing. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 14dc1b5 | As friends they knew each other's history, knew the twists and turns that had brought them to this place in the world. And they understood each other's fears and frailties; nothing had to be explained. Now, | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 60b5fca | when greeted, in case the ghostly specter | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 46e0534 | May I not sit in judgment. May I be open to hearing and accepting the truth of what I am told. May my decisions be for the good of all concerned. May my work bring peace. . . . | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| db0f204 | Memories streamed over her, and she sat up, images converging in her mind's eye, the sneaker wave of grief catching her in its riptide pull once again, leaving her washed ashore, bereft, with two deep desires: to sleep forever, or to live life for them both. "Oh," | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| c029457 | Come, take what you will, be nourished and know that you can bear what might be on your horizon, the good and the ill." Now," | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| cd969f4 | He's what my old mum would call a bombastic little nit of a man. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| bd83514 | They say the face tells all there is to know about a life, but I personally believe much can be deduced from the hands. There are lines and scars, bumps and calluses; indeed, the hands are both the sketch and the final work of art. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 8a688e8 | she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 8db8310 | It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it? | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 0d5c613 | She thought the flat would be all the better for some photographs, not only to serve as reminders of those who were loved, or reflections of happy times spent in company, but to act as mirrors, where she might see the affection with which she was held by those dear to her. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| aaa447a | the power of the question was in the question itself? He'd taught her that one must let a question linger in the mind as one might savor wine on the tongue, and he'd cautioned that a rush to answer could diminish all chance of insight. Indeed, if one continually avoided questions by trying to answer them immediately, such impatience would become a barrier on the path to greater knowledge of oneself. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 052c758 | Trouble is, your best ain't always the best for those who want a say in the matter. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 7a22de5 | Extremes live within us all. The joy of association resides alongside the anticipation of loss. What is given will be taken, what we have is often only of value to us when it is gone." He paused, his face now held to the light once more." | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| f2a37b2 | Lord of the world, must I and my ass eat at one crib? | Adam | ||
| 084999c | She knew the worries that came to the fore at night were the ones you had to pay attention to, for they blurred reasoned thought, sucked clarity from any consideration of one's situation, and could lead a mind around in circles, leaving one drained and ill-tempered. And if there was no one close with whom to discuss those concerns, they grew in importance in the imagination, whether they were rooted in good sense or not. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 655f496 | Those of us who have reached our more mature years know the value of a nap, Maisie, and we can indulge ourselves without the comfort of pillow or bed. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| c413124 | Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it? | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 66c90bc | Maisie] Tell me, Dr. Dene, if you were to name one thing that made the difference between those who get well quickly and those who don't, what would it be? [Dr. Dene] ...In my opinion, acceptance has to come first. Some people don't accept what has happened. They think, 'Oh, if only I hadn't...' or... 'If only I'd known...' They are stuck at the point that caused the injury. ...I would say that it's threefold: One is accepting what has happ.. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 6cb4255 | Maisie] Tell me, Dr. Dene, if you were to name one thing that made the difference between those who get well quickly and those who don't, what would it be? [Dr. Dene] ...In my opinion, acceptance has to come first. Some people don't accept what has happened. They think, 'Oh, if only I hadn't...' or... 'If only I'd known...' They are stuck at the point that caused the injury. ...I would say that it's threefold: One is accepting what has happ.. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 3b45f48 | Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 9d8d53d | Sometimes she thought she could see that good heart beating, and realized that more often now she looked for goodness in a person, sought it out and found it comforting. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 325f93a | Look at the world beyond your immediate emotion, the immediate fury of inequality. Choose your battles, Billy. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 7bddcfe | Not you. Only Fraulein Donat. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 9f8c7d3 | What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. --WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915 | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 87fc91d | Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 9154ce2 | There's only one thing left to do. St. Paul's on Old Year's Night. For Auld Lang Syne, my dears. For old time's sake. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 89e7f7b | Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Harper, 3/23) | Publishers Lunch | ||
| 61bc900 | of each other. I think we're at the end. I just feel it. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| b0b0d7c | broken buildings like jagged teeth in the mouth of a mad dog... | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| e008790 | Think of a dead body as if you are viewing a set of clothing, Maisie - but consider it as the attire the soul has worn for many a year. And it is clothing that has something to teach us about the man or woman under the knife. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 3ab7560 | just because you know right from wrong, it doesn't mean you stay away from the wrong part. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 90eb4df | the time it took to brush away one tear could mean the difference between saving a soldier or laying him out after death. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 839dc9a | It makes my heart so heavy. Young men shouldn't have to die, and their parents shouldn't have to go through the rest of their lives making everything seem right by saying, 'At least my boy was brave.' Or, 'We're proud he did his bit. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| d794f03 | Always seeking to do rather than to be. Do you really seek the counsel of the spirit? | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 7973149 | Bombers were the dark crows of death, sent out to lay their eggs on an unsuspecting world. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 3b69d91 | We are all apprentices, Maisie. Even when we think we've graduated to another rung on the ladder of experience, there is always much to learn. Every soul who comes to me for counsel gives me another lesson in return, and I am humbled and made new by each fresh opportunity to serve. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 2e23364 | When you are sitting in silence, you open the door to a deeper wisdom--the knowing of the ages. When you are walking, with the path to that wisdom already carved anew by your daily practice, you find that an idea, a thought, a notion, comes to you, and you have the solution to a problem that seemed insoluble. | silence walking | Jacqueline Winspear | |
| 173304c | You should allow yourself to indulge in this remembrance. When you face the past, all you will see is that which has gone before. So I have some advice: Let this be your turning point. Have done with it, and turn to face the future. Only then will the future rise up to meet you. Only then will the distress pass. | Jacqueline Winspear | ||
| 5dc74f1 | All the books, all the lectures, all the pages of ... of information, areas nothing against the measure of our experience -- and by that he meant the experience we take to heart, that we go back to, trying to work out the why, what, and how of whatever has come about in our lives. That, he said, is where we learn the value of true knowledge, with our life's lessons to draw upon so that we might one day be blessed with wisdom. I may not be t.. | knowledge wisdom | Jacqueline Winspear |