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> [“I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of flat land where, a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/i-slowed-my-pace-years-of-hauling-water-wringing-out-clothes/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

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## More by Tracy Chevalier

> [My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/my-writing-routine-is-get-son-off-to-school-and-sit-down-at-8-a-m-i/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/while-molly-and-joseph-anning-suffered-materially-that-winter-with/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/i-wanted-to-wear-the-mantle-and-the-pearls-i-wanted-to-know-the-man/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/i-knew-i-should-believe-him-as-he-taught-at-oxford-but-his-answers/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/they-were-a-mother-s-words-words-i-would-say-to-my-own-daughter-if-i/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/he-was-a-collector-rather-than-a-hunter-buying-his-knowledge-rather/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“He spoke her name as though he held cinnamon in his mouth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/he-spoke-her-name-as-though-he-held-cinnamon-in-his-mouth/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/there-followed-a-time-when-everything-was-dull-the-things-that-had/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/i-had-always-thought-of-the-sea-as-a-boundary-keeping-me-in-my-place/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/i-find-that-when-i-come-out-of-the-library-i-m-in-what-i-call-the/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“It is less distracting in the silence,” she said. “Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/it-is-less-distracting-in-the-silence-she-said-sustained-silence/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/the-sign-of-a-masterpiece-a-painting-when-there-s-a-lack-of-resolution/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone’s life so and did not easily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/i-did-not-sleep-well-that-night-i-was-not-used-to-having-the-power-to/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/i-have-consistently-loved-books-that-i-ve-read-when-i-ve-been-sick-in/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

> [“Everybody asks the same questions -- but they don't know that they ask the same questions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-chevalier/everybody-asks-the-same-questions-but-they-don-t-know-that-they-ask/)

[Tracy Chevalier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-chevalier/)

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