Tracy Chevalier Quotes

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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, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

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

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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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Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

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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, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

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I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

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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 is just at her back.

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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.

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You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

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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, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.' Falling Angels

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That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.

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