Explore Quotes by Tracy Chevalier

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

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

Say something worth the words.

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.

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.

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!

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

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