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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

Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me. — Tracy 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

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

Like Tracy Chevalier, Burton is skilled at evoking place . . . Wonderful' Guardian — Jessie Burton

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

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

I could not think of anything but his fingers on my neck, his thumb on my lips. — 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

Had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon. — Tracy Chevalier

I did not mind the cold so much when he was there. — Tracy 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

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

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

He had decided to trust me. — 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 was not a house where secrets could be kept easily. — Tracy Chevalier

Everybody asks the same questions
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

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

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

The grandeur false if you were not grand yourself. — Tracy Chevalier

California is where you get to start over. — Tracy Chevalier

Say something worth the words. — 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

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

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

I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly. — 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

Have noticed that people do not change which feature they lead with, any more than they change in character. — Tracy Chevalier

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. — 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

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

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

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

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next. — Tracy Chevalier

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