Elegy for Eddie Quotes

“And it occurred to her that she was so used to turning over everything in her mind, as if each thought were an intricate shell found at the beach, that she had never truly known the value of simply accepting things as they were.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie

“She might not be completely at peace with the past, but rubbed along with it because it was part of who she had become.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie

“After the war, however, in the early 1920s, the government had launched a series of advertisements aimed at getting the population out into the fresh air, encouraging people to go hill walking, which some master of the slogan had abbreviated to hiking.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie

“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, Elegy for Eddie

“There’s some people who seem to be dealt the wrong hand, and it’s just one thing after another.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie

“of each other. I think we’re at the end. I just feel it.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie

“But you just know when someone's there, don't you? You can feel them in the house, as if--oh, I don't know, I'm an old woman rambling--but it's as if your heart knows that their heart is beating somewhere and everything's all right.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie