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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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Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.
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Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
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People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.
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We do not need such things to help us to see God," I countered. "We have His Word, and that is
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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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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.
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not of this world,
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Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.
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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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I knew that he would go out to the tavern, returning with eyes like glittering spoons.
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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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He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.
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He spoke her name as though he held cinnamon in his mouth.
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Had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon.
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I did not mind the cold so much when he was there.
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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.
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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.
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
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He had decided to trust me.
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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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It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
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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.
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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.
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Life itself was far messier and didn't end so tidily with the heroine making the right match.
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There is no need to fear," he said, "for you are here with me.
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The grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.
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California is where you get to start over.
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Say something worth the words.
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He was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I
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But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.
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He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.
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If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.
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At first I could not meet his eyes. When I did it was like sitting close to a fire that suddenly blazes up.
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Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.
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The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
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Only thieves and children run.
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Have noticed that people do not change which feature they lead with, any more than they change in character.
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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. — Tracy Chevalier
"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!
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of all the cities he had been to - Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City - San Francisco was by far the worst.
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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.
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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
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They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her
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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.
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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.
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