Falling Angels Quotes

“Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels

“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.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels

“I'm going to draw on every grave in the cemetery" he continued.
"Why do you draw them?" I asked. "Why a skull and crossbones?"
"Reminds you what's underneath, don't it? It's all bones down there, whatever you may put on the grave.”
― Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels

“I stood by the fire, everyone around me so cheerful, and thought what an odd creature I am – even I know that. Too much space and I’m frightened, too little and I’m frightened. There is indeed no comfortable place for me – I am too near the fire or too far away. Behind”
― Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels