Jacqueline Winspear Quotes

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

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

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

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

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

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

But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn't dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.

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

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

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

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

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

Never judge a journey by the distance.

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

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

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

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?

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

[Maisie]:...going out for luncheon with a gentleman is definitely not the same as going out to dine in the evening. [Billy]: You get more grub at dinner, for a start -

... truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.

Maisie bit her lip. She had learned that sometimes it was best to let words die of their own accord, rather than fight them.