Die schönsten Zitate von Tracy Chevalier

Nur besonderen Büchern gelingt der Kampf gegen fallende Augenlider.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

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.

I did not mind the cold so much when he was there.

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.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

Sag etwas, das die Worte wert ist.

Say something worth the words.

Ich habe mich immer in die Bücher verliebt, die ich gelesen habe, während ich krank im Bett lag.

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

März war ein unvorhersehbarer Monat, in dem man nie wusste, was passiert. Warme Tage regten Hoffnungen, bis Eis und graue Himmel wieder über die Stadt herein brachen.

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.