Girl With A Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”
“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”
“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”
“I heard voices outside our front door - a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur.”
“I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.”
“He spoke her name as though he held cinnamon in his mouth.”
“I could not think of anything but his fingers on my neck, his thumb on my lips.”
“It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.”
“My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.”
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Book Keywords:
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