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Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4) QUOTES

Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4) QUOTES

1 " With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's understanding of what is considered good or bad, or right or wrong in the world of art. With the artist who has achieved mastery, skill, experience and knowledge are transparent, leaving only the message for all to see. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

2 " She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved parents. She had seen, when she entered the kitchen, the chasm of sorrow that divided man and wife already, each deep in their own wretched suffering, neither knowing what to say to the other. She knew that to begin to talk about what had happened was a key to acknowledging their loss, and that such acceptance would in turn be a means to enduring the days and months ahead. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

3 " I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understanding of those influences that sculpt a character. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

4 " Grief is not an event, my dear, but a passage, a pilgrimage along a path that allows us to reflect upon the past from points of remembrance held in the soul. At times the way is filled with stones underfoot and we feel pained by our memories, yet on other days the shadows reflect our longing and those happinesses shared. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

5 " She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

6 " I am no longer an artist interested and anxious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn in their lousy souls. —Paul Nash, Artist 1899–1946 Paul Nash served with the Artists’ Rifles and the Royal Hampshire Regiment in the Great War. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

7 " If her soul were a room, it was as if a light were now shinning in a corner that had been dark. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

8 " Look at the world beyond your immediate emotion, the immediate fury of inequality. Choose your battles, Billy. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

9 " Always seeking to do rather than to be. Do you really seek the counsel of the spirit? "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

10 " I can dance with life again. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

11 " It's because it's the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now is to be suffered, there is an end and a beginning. "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

12 " Russell Thorndike, "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

13 " American Du Pont Merrimac Town Car "

― Jacqueline Winspear , Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)