Maisie Dobbs Quotes

“Truth walks toward us on the paths 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, Maisie Dobbs

“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, Maisie Dobbs

“Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary. Assume nothing, Maisie.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Thus a day that had seen so many tears ended in the midst of a rainbow.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to think hopefully of the future.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“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.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance as surely as her body needed its fuel.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“...only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Never follow a story with a question, Maisie, not immediately. And remember to acknowledge the storyteller, for in some way even the messenger is affected by the story he brings.”
― jacqueline winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“In the early days of her pupilage with Maurice, he had told Maisie of his teachers, the wise men who spoke of the veil that was lifted in the early hours, of the all-seeing eye that was open before the day was awake. The hours before dawn were the sacred time, before the intellect rose from slumber. At this time one’s inner voice could be heard.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“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.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Silencing the mind was a greater task than stilling the body.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“It’s not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Memories appear in flashes of light, in short scenes, in reflections that can make us laugh or bring us to tears. They might come in on a sneaker wave of grief, or be buoyed up from our past by a certain fragrance in the air, or a sound from afar. The essence of memoir, I suppose, is that it could better be described as “re-memory.” We don’t just look back at an event in our past; we are remembering the memory of what happened. It’s a bit like putting the laundry through”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“A time when the light is most likely to deceive the eye, a time between sleep and waking. A time when a man is likely to be at his weakest. Dawn is a time when soft veils are draped across reality, creating illusion and cheating truth. It is said, Maisie, it is darkest just before dawn.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“attention to the reactions of your body. It is the wisdom of the self speaking to you. Be aware of concern, of anticipation, of all the feelings that come from the self. They manifest in the body. What is their counsel?”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Coincidence was a messenger sent by truth.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Truth grows even more powerful when it is suppressed, and that often it takes only one small crack to bring down the wall, to release it.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“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.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“when she was the silent observer as he listened to a story, gently prodding with a question, a comment, a sigh, or a smile, “The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Pay attention to the reactions of your body. It is the wisdom of the self speaking to you. Be aware of concern, of anticipation, of all the feelings that come from the self. They manifest in the body.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“show them the way to reach a certain”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“I want to know what you think the answer is to the question. And once more, a word of advice: 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.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions.” Maurice’s voice once again echoed in her mind. “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, Maisie Dobbs