Jacqueline Winspear

“The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

— Jacqueline Winspear

“The heart does not know chronos time, Maisie.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

I love dogs, horses and generally all animals.

— Jacqueline Winspear

It was time to move on, to dance with life again.

— Jacqueline Winspear

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

— Jacqueline Winspear

Never judge a journey by the distance.

— Jacqueline Winspear

“I can dance with life again.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. —WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915”

— Jacqueline Winspear

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

— Jacqueline Winspear

“The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“knew only too well that the path of grief could not be scripted.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

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

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written…

— Jacqueline Winspear

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing…

— Jacqueline Winspear

I love time with family and friends, but completely relish time on my own when I have no agenda to follow, no…

— Jacqueline Winspear

I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Pay attention to the reactions of your body. It is the wisdom of the self speaking to you. Be aware of concern,…

— Jacqueline Winspear

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving…

— Jacqueline Winspear

My favorite way to unwind is to go for a walk with my husband and the dog at the end of the…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right; we try…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“I’m not really interested in the black and white, the 'goodies and baddies.' I find the complexity of the gray areas more…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“... the vacuum left by the departing visitor seemed to echo along the hallway and into the walls. It was at those…

— Jacqueline Winspear

It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought…

— Jacqueline Winspear

I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“In the early days of her pupilage with Maurice, he had told Maisie of his teachers, the wise men who spoke of…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“My child, when a mountain appears on the journey, we try to go to the left, then to the right. We try…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“There are many oppressed people across the border, people who are dirt poor and have little chance in life. Then there are…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“And you think journeying abroad will give you this knowledge you crave? I think it will contribute to my understanding of the…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing…

— Jacqueline Winspear

She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“everyone has a capacity for evil. And we’ve all seen it, and done it, even if we think we haven’t—there’s the slight…

— Jacqueline Winspear

As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which…

— Jacqueline Winspear

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

— Jacqueline Winspear