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Jacqueline Winspear _ Maisie Dobbs
Then as each month, each year passed, it was as if the memory of you - of us… the explosion - were encased in a fine tissue-paper.' … 'I felt as if I were looking through a window to my own past, and instead of being transparent, my view was becoming more and more opaque, until eventually the time had passed. The time for coming to see you had passed.
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Jacqueline Winspear _ Maisie Dobbs
Least I feel as if I'm doing something. Making shells, like. Least I'm not just sitting on my bum while them boys get shot to bits over there.
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Jacqueline Winspear _ Maisie Dobbs
Maurice Blanche maintained that amid the tales, the smokescreens, and the deceptive mirrors of life's unsolved mysteries, truth resides, waiting for someone to enter its sanctum, then leave, without quite closing the door behind them. That is when truth may make its escape.
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Jacqueline Winspear _ Maisie Dobbs
It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?"
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Jacqueline Winspear _ Maisie Dobbs
intimacy that can be had, even in a crowded room, when two people want only
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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.
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Jacqueline Winspear _ Maisie Dobbs
...only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.
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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.
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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."
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Jacqueline Winspear _ Maisie Dobbs
The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.
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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.
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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.
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