quotes by Tracy Chevalier

"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 Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring)

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