Jacqueline Winspear Quotes

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Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.

Jacqueline Winspear

Shame, isn't it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are 'spit and polished,' and not when they're showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.

Jacqueline Winspear

Truth walks toward us on the path of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.

Jacqueline Winspear

A question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.

Jacqueline Winspear

Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.

Jacqueline Winspear

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

Jacqueline Winspear

Only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear

Born: April 30, 1955 (age 70)

Bio: Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the ‘Maisie Dobbs’ series of books which explore the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series.

Known for:

Maisie Dobbs (2003)
A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (2015)
Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (2005)
A Lesson in Secrets (2011)
An Incomplete Revenge (2008)

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