123 Quotes by Jacqueline Winspear

David Corbett’s The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for the seasoned storyteller. If you are a writer, it should be on your desk.

Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you. In time, Maisie, you will find that the larger questions in life share such behavior.

Allow grief room to air itself,” Maurice had taught her.“Be judicious in using the body to comfort another, for you may extinguish the freedom that the person feels to be able to share a sadness.

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.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – KAHLIL GIBRAN.

Now that’s discrimination – when you look down your nose at the very men who fought to make sure you could still go to work in your tidy, warm office. That’s the trouble with people – they cherish their comforts, but they don’t want to know where they come from.

Maurice’s maxim: “To solve a problem, take it for a walk.

I can dance with life again.

There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.