Tracy Chevalier Quotes

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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 away from the…
• Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
• My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month,…
• The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
• Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
• It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and…
• He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place,…
• It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
• Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
• So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and…
• We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at…
• I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.
• Say something worth the words.
• I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
• I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has,…
• I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
• You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.
• Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.
• It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
• You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.

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