"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

"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 Chevalier

"''Provela sam ceo zivot cekajuci da se nesto dogodi... I vremenom sam shvatila da se nista nece desiti... Ili se vec desilo, ali sam ja tog trenutka trepnula i sve propustila... Ne znam sta bi bilo gore - da sam propustila ili saznanje da nema sta da se propusti."
— Tracy Chevalier (Falling Angels)

"I looked up and met his eye, holding his grey gaze for a long moment. I knew it was for the last time. I did not look at anyone else.

In his eyes I thought I could see regret."
— Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring)