“This was the sort of situation that she read about in the novels she favored, by authors such as Miss Jane Austen, whom Margaret was sure she’d met long ago at the Assembly Rooms the first time we visited Lyme.… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“What do you believe, Aunt Elizabeth?' 'I believe. . . I am comfortable with reading the Bible figuratively rather than literally. For instance, I think the six days in Genesis are not literal days, but different periods of creation, so… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
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… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her” — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I” — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening.” — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
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… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“It is less distracting in the silence,” she said. “Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
