He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.
Tracy ChevalierJane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.
Tracy ChevalierTag: jane-austen
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
Tracy ChevalierTag: reading books insomnia drowsiness sleepy
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 ChevalierWhat do you believe, Aunt Elizabeth?'
'I believe. . . I am comfortable with reading the Bible figuratively rather than literally. For instance, I think the six days in Genesis are not literal days, but different periods of creation, so that it took many thousands --- or hundreds of thousands of years --- to create. It does not demean God; it simply gives Him more time to build this extraordinary world.'
'And the ichthyosaurus and plesiosaurus?'
'They are creatures from long, long ago. They remind us that the world is changing. Of course it is. I can see it change when there are landslips at Lyme that alter the shoreline. It changes when there are earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and floods. And why shouldn't it?
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 ChevalierI 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 ChevalierTag: humor
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 threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.
Tracy ChevalierTag: marriage weaving tapestry
Say something worth the words.
Tracy ChevalierTag: words
There is no need to fear," he said, "for you are here with me.
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