“ As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics. Tracy Chevalier
“ Yes, my boy; yes, my girl. The tension between contraries is what makes us ourselves. We have not just one, but the other too, mixing and clashing and sparking inside us. Not just light, but dark. Not… Tracy Chevalier
“ Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft… Tracy Chevalier
“ It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you. Tracy Chevalier
“ Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways. 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
“ She reminded him of September blackberries, which looked ripe but could just as easily be sour as sweet when you ate them. 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
“ Jem gazed up into the proper deep blue he knew well from Dorsetshire, coupled with the vivid green of the roadside grass and shrubs, and found himself smiling at these colors that were so natural and… Tracy Chevalier
“ Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children. Tracy Chevalier
“ 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 the distractions of life. Tracy Chevalier
“ What made him most attractive was that he was attracted to her. Another’s interest can be a powerful stimulant. She could feel his eyes on her as an almost physical pressure. Tracy Chevalier
“ I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone’s life so and did not easily carry its weight, as a man might have done. Tracy Chevalier
“ James found the talk by the wagons tiring after a while. He liked to listen, and he had thoughts of what he'd like to say about the weather, or the corn crop, or the road being macadamized, or the ras… Tracy Chevalier
“ Marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to comfort me, and the money it brought in, but that only went so far. I could no… Tracy Chevalier
“ This is not your land, William Lobb said.Oh, it is, it is. I got the papers. I can show you, back at the camp.This is Indian land, if it's anyone's. William Lobb spoke as if he hadn't heard Billie Lap… Tracy Chevalier
