Mary Anning Quote by Tracy Chevalier Download Open image ““Yes, Mary Anning, you are different from all the rocks on the beach.”” — Tracy Chevalier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mary Anning
“Mary is…different to me. I’m not going to pretend I understand why. All I know is, she’s a pounding in my chest that I… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“Mother is the rock, I am the ocean. I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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“Be careful… not all are what they seem. Some people pretend to be the beach, but they’re actually quicksand.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“...but I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I sleep alongside… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“You know, she's really just a figurehead off an old ship, but the people needed comfort and rescue, so when they looked at it, they saw Mary, and so the spirit of Mary took it over. Really, her spirit is everywhere, Lily, just everywhere. Inside rocks and trees and even people, but sometimes it will get concentrated in certain places… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share
“She tasted like flowers and chocolate and gentle waves upon the shore.” — Catherine Bybee Copy Share Image
“Well, you would realize… Like i eventually realized… That the good things about her? All the beautiful? It’s not real. It’s fake. So you… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The next day, Mary walked through the rubble of their destroyed house. They had never had anything but now they had nothing. Mary realized… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“She ought to go down to the beach. It was Thursday, early closing, and it seemed ungrateful to live so close to the sea… — Penelope Fitzgerald 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
Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image