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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
— Tracy Chevalier
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
— Maurice Chevalier
Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.
— Tracy Chevalier
Do not be afraid to be afraid.
— Maurice Chevalier
When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.
— Maurice Chevalier
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
— Tracy Chevalier
People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.
— Tracy Chevalier
We do not need such things to help us to see God," I countered. "We have His Word, and that is
enough. — Tracy Chevalier
enough. — 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 where you are.
— Tracy Chevalier
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.
— Tracy Chevalier
not of this world,
— Tracy Chevalier
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
— Maurice Chevalier
Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.
— Tracy Chevalier
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
— Tracy Chevalier
I knew that he would go out to the tavern, returning with eyes like glittering spoons.
— Tracy Chevalier
You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.
— Tracy Chevalier
He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.
— Tracy Chevalier
He spoke her name as though he held cinnamon in his mouth.
— Tracy Chevalier
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
— Maurice Chevalier
To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.
— Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
— Maurice Chevalier
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
— Maurice Chevalier
Old age is not that bad when you consider the alternative.
— Maurice Chevalier
[On Bonnie Prince Charlie:] Oh, Charlie is my darling, / My darling, my darling; / Oh, Charlie is my darling, / The young Chevalier.
— Carolina Nairne
One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to.
— Maurice Chevalier
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
— Tracy Chevalier
Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.
— Maurice Chevalier
It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
— Tracy Chevalier
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.
— Tracy Chevalier
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
— Tracy Chevalier
A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.
— Maurice Chevalier
Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.
— Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
The crime of loving is forgetting.
— Maurice Chevalier
I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings.
— Tracy Chevalier
Say something worth the words.
— Tracy Chevalier
Spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit a person's perspective.
— Tracy Chevalier
So many doors around here, I'm surprised your name isn't Monty Hall.
— Randall Kenneth Drake
He had decided to trust me.
— Tracy Chevalier
Everybody asks the same questions
but they don't know that they ask the same questions. — Tracy Chevalier
but they don't know that they ask the same questions. — Tracy Chevalier
He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey.
— Tracy Chevalier
The uncertainty of events disturbs the purest enjoyments.
— Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
California is where you get to start over.
— Tracy Chevalier
Life itself was far messier and didn't end so tidily with the heroine making the right match.
— Tracy Chevalier
There is no need to fear," he said, "for you are here with me.
— Tracy Chevalier
I did not mind the cold so much when he was there.
— Tracy Chevalier
The grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.
— Tracy Chevalier
of all the cities he had been to - Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City - San Francisco was by far the worst.
— Tracy Chevalier
But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.
— Tracy Chevalier
He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.
— Tracy Chevalier
If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.
— Tracy Chevalier
At first I could not meet his eyes. When I did it was like sitting close to a fire that suddenly blazes up.
— Tracy Chevalier
Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.
— Tracy Chevalier
The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
— Tracy Chevalier
Only thieves and children run.
— Tracy Chevalier
Why can't he have any chocolate?" she muttered, scrounging through the pantry. "I have so many feelings to eat right now. Every feeling ever.
— Sophie Chevalier
Have noticed that people do not change which feature they lead with, any more than they change in character.
— Tracy Chevalier
He was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I
— Tracy Chevalier
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 writing less!
— Tracy Chevalier
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as 'The Royal Variety Show,' performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
— Shirley Eaton
Had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.
— Tracy Chevalier
Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation.
— Francis De Gaston, Chevalier De Levis
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
— Maurice Chevalier
Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.
— Tracy Chevalier
I have a bed and enough to eat and kind people about me. God is still with me. For these things I am grateful and have no reason to complain
— Tracy Chevalier
They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her
— Tracy Chevalier
We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme.
— Tracy Chevalier
I prefer old age to the alternative.
— Maurice Chevalier
I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.
— G.N. Chevalier
Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.
— Tracy Chevalier
Considering the alternative ... it's not too bad at all.
— Maurice Chevalier