The Lady and the Unicorn Quotes

“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.”
― Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn

“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 Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn

“in the cartoon of Sight. It”
― Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn

“I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly.”
― Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn

“His parting would have been solemn but we were too busy to think much of it. We were weaving fourteen hours a day then, with hardly a moment for meals, and I was dizzy with the pattern of the tapestry in front of me even when I wasn't weaving. I fell into bed each night and slept without moving until Madeleine woke me in the morning. There was little time left to think about a man's departure. The night before Nicolas went the”
― Tracy Chevalier, The Lady and the Unicorn