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…

— Tracy Chevalier

“While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how…

— Tracy Chevalier

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

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“I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having…

— Tracy Chevalier

“They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her”

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“he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I”

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“He spoke her name as though he held cinnamon in his mouth.”

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“There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like…

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“I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an…

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I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken…

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“It is less distracting in the silence,” she said. “Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We…

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The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

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“I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone’s life so and did…

— Tracy Chevalier

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

— Tracy Chevalier

“Everybody asks the same questions -- but they don't know that they ask the same questions.”

— Tracy Chevalier

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay…

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We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other…

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“We do not need such things to help us to see God,” I countered. “We have His Word, and that is enough.”

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“Only thieves and children run.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“There is no need to fear," he said, "for you are here with me.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or…

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“Yes, Mary Anning, you are different from all the rocks on the beach.”

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“spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit…

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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

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“But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted…

— Tracy Chevalier