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The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8) QUOTES

The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8) QUOTES

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

― Jacqueline Winspear , The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8)

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

― Jacqueline Winspear , The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8)

3 " He’s what my old mum would call a bombastic little nit of a man. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8)

4 " They say the face tells all there is to know about a life, but I personally believe much can be deduced from the hands. There are lines and scars, bumps and calluses; indeed, the hands are both the sketch and the final work of art. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8)

5 " Was it that she did not trust happily ever after, that she was deliberately indifferent to the possibility? Or was happily ever after another one of time’s secrets, waiting to be revealed on the journey? "

― Jacqueline Winspear , The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8)

6 " Life is a riddle, my dear. It is filled with clues along the way, with messages we struggle to understand. You’ve been working on the case of a cartographer; you should know that all maps are drawn in hindsight. And hindsight, if interpreted with care, is what brings us wisdom. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8)

7 " with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of the common man while allowing the common man to think you’re on his side. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8)

8 " That’s not necessarily a bad thing, is it? You bring old events and choices to the surface, and you change the vista—but spring will come, the soil will seed itself, that flood or drought will abate, and life goes on in that new landscape. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , The Mapping of Love and Death / A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #7-8)