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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b8c776 | in the cartoon of Sight. It | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 964bc07 | Elle se sentait tellement deconcertee par la contradiction existant entre ce qu'elle pensait et ce qu'on esperait d'elle qu'elle etait incapable de parler. Peut-etre valait-il mieux qu'elle se taise, en attendant d'etre plus sure de ce qu'elle voulait dire. Ainsi ses paroles ne pourraient-elles etre deformees et lui etre renvoyees a la figure. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 947556f | Funny, I didn't think much about apples fore we came to the Black Swamp. when I was growin up we had an orchard like everybody else but I didn't pay it no attention cept when the blossom was out in May. Then Id go and lie there smellin some sweet perfume and listenin to the bees hum so happy cause they had flowers to play with. That was where James and I lay our first time together. I shouldve known then he wasnt for me. He was so busy insp.. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 732c411 | I knew that he would go out to the tavern, returning with eyes like glittering spoons. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| d0ce954 | She reminded him of September blackberries, which looked ripe but could just as easily be sour as sweet when you ate them. | romantic-gamble sweet-and-sour temptation | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 2901518 | Jem gazed up into the proper deep blue he knew well from Dorsetshire, coupled with the vivid green of the roadside grass and shrubs, and found himself smiling at these colors that were so natural and yet shouted louder than any London ribbon or dress. | naturalist rural-versus-urban | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 6773ce8 | Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways. | opposites philosophical william-blake | Tracy Chevalier | |
| e5b57c5 | Yalnizca hirsizlar ve cocuklar kosar. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| aa6be80 | the grandeur false if you were not grand yourself. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| f01cdd2 | Evet,yasam bir aldatmaca. Eger yeteri kadar uzun yasarsan, hic bir seyin sasirtici olmadigini ogreniyorsun. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 15587fd | in the clear brown were little flecks of black like pieces of bark | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| b4aa946 | Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things--tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids--are they not celebrating God's creation as well?" I" | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 8388529 | My mommy told me If I was goody That she would buy me A rubber dolly My sister told her I kissed a soldier Now she won't buy me That rubber dolly Now I am dead And in my grave | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| d60f7fa | I was chopping vegetables in the kitchen when 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. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| d7fa7d6 | As an example of how celebrated the painting is, novelist Tracy Chevalier published a historical novel, also entitled Girl with a Pearl Earring, in 1999, which encouraged new interest in Vermeer and his works. The novel was later adapted for film and as a successful play. | Johannes Vermeer | ||
| 1ea1dc6 | IT'S ALL GOOD (WHICH IS BAD) | Greg McKeown | ||
| d3420bf | I had not yet been down to the cellar where I was to sleep. I took a candle with me but was too tired to look around beyond finding a bed, pillow and blanket. Leaving the trap door of the cellar open so that cool, fresh air could reach me, I took off my shoes, cap, apron and dress, prayed briefly, and lay down. I was about to blow out the candle when I noticed the painting hanging at the foot of my bed. I sat up, wide awake now. It was anot.. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 9888ff4 | There is a difference between Catholic and Protestant attitudes to painting,' he explained as he worked, 'but it is not necessarily as great as you may think. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things - tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids - are they not celebrating God's creation as well? | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 6a8afb9 | Solo los ladrones y los ninos corren. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| b5d6cbf | Though grafted at the same time, they had grown up to be different sizes; it always surprised James that the trees could turn out as varied as his children. | grafted trees | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 4c56af2 | She'd had a terrible time with his brothers' wives : seeing her with them was like watching someone pet a cat against its fur. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 7a073b6 | James found the talk by the wagons tiring after a while. He liked to listen, and he had thoughts of what he'd like to say about the weather, or the corn crop, or the road being macadamized, or the rascals in Congress. But he never quite had the courage to speak them aloud. By the time he had formed words to his liking, the conversation had moved on. | listen thoughts | Tracy Chevalier | |
| b1fe905 | Life was often simply the repetition of the same movements in a different order, depending on the day and the place. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 7bb772d | Nance is funny that way. She likes women her own size--like your sister. She knows where she is with a woman like Martha. Whereas Molly--she's so--well, so full of life, she makes Nance feel even sicker. | women | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 7c5acf9 | He rode into Haarlem the following afternoon with | Rosalind Laker | ||
| fd39e03 | In her own mind she was adding that forgiveness did not necessarily mean that forgetting went with it. | Rosalind Laker | ||
| 2371f1a | The difference is that love and hate are mixed together now, making it impossible for me to decide which is the stronger and at times they even seem the same. | Rosalind Laker | ||
| f587517 | He put his fingertips lightly to either side of her chin, just on her jawline, and looked into her eyes. "Do you really imagine that is my true purpose? Time no longer matters to me all the while I can see you, hear you, and be near you." | Rosalind Laker | ||
| 540fdf4 | My own disposition is against being in the government unless I am part of the Supreme Direction. | Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner | ||
| 7b99dfa | Henceforth nothing could shake him and no doubt could cause him to waver. He had found his way to sphinxlike imperturbability. | sphinx | Patrick Süskind | |
| 67cdb61 | Palpitava-lhe a extraordinaria sensacao de que esse aroma seria a chave para ordenar todos os aromas, que nao entenderia nada de aromas se nao se tivesse entendido esse; e ele Grenoiulle teria desperdicado a vida se nao conseguisse pega-lo. Precisava te-lo, nao pela mera posse, mas para sossego do seu coracao. | perfume-quotes | Patrick Süskind | |
| 4e0afad | feo, desde luego, pero no hasta el extremo de causar espanto. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| df85a64 | De toutes ces peripeties, Jonathan Noel tira la conclusion qu'on ne pouvait se fier aux humains et qu'on ne saurait vivre en paix qu'en les tenant a l'ecart.>> | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 5a8e834 | la actividad creadora se desarrollaba unicamente en su interior y no podia ser percibida por nadie mas que por el mismo. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 6d2f39e | E poi? Che cosa avrebbe fatto poi? Non lo sapeva. Forse avrebbe ripreso la sua solita vita, forse si sarebbe sposato, forse avrebbe generato un figlio, forse non avrebbe fatto nulla, forse sarebbe morto. Gli era del tutto indifferente. Pensarci gli sembrava assurdo come pensare a quello che avrebbe fatto dopo la propria morte: naturalmente nulla. Nulla che gia fin d'ora potesse sapere. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 2862da0 | Porque durante toda su vida no habia hecho mas que renunciar, pero nunca habia poseido y perdido. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| c86248b | Odinochestvo -- samoe strashnoe, chto mozhet sluchit'sia s chelovekom. I ne vazhno, kto etot chelovek, bedniak ili bogach, prostak ili khitrets, glupets ili genii. Odinochestvo ne stuchitsia i ne zhdet, poka emu otkroiut, u nego est' kliuchi oto vsekh dverei. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| 8431d4c | E de repente soube que jamais encontraria satisfacao no amor, mas tao-somente no odio, em odiar e ser odiado. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| bf7f74a | Oder wie jener Zeck auf dem Baum, dem doch das Leben nichts anderes zu bieten hat als ein immerwahrendes uberwintern. Der kleine hassliche Zeck, der seinen bleigrauen Korper zur Kugel formt, um der Aussenwelt die geringstmogliche Flache zu bieten; der seine Haut glatt und derb macht, um nichts zu verstromen, kein bisschen von sich hinauszutranspirieren. Der Zeck, der sich extra klein und unansehnlich macht, damit niemand ihn sehe und zertre.. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| dc4d553 | For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they could not escape scent. For scent was a brother of breath. Together with breath it entered human beings, who could not defend themselves against it, not if they wanted to live. And scent entered into their very core, went directly to their hearts, and decided for good and all between affection and contempt, disgust .. | Patrick Süskind | ||
| eeebcc6 | The prospects for peace were, "even blacker than a year ago". | Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner | ||
| 588683c | up?" she asked, closing her computer and returning the" | J.A. Jance | ||
| df6ad19 | run | Gary Paulsen | ||
| b3f493b | I'm sorry. I was just running them. Running the dogs." I swallowed more soup and looked at the sky. The cold air was so clear the stars seemed to be falling to the ground. Like you could walk right. . . over . . . there and pick them up just lying on the snow. "I couldn't come back." | dogs iditarod mushing sled-dogs | Gary Paulsen |