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Remarkable Creatures QUOTES

Remarkable Creatures QUOTES

1 " It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

2 " 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. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

3 " There was something different about her, though I could not say exactly what it was. It was as if she were more certain. If someone were sketching her they would use clear, strong lines, whereas before they might have used faint marks and more shading. She was like a fossil that’s been cleaned and set so everyone can see what it is. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

4 " I never said I didn't want to marry. It just didn't happen-Iam not the sort of lady a man chooses to marry, for I am too plain and too serious. Now I am reconciled to being on my own. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

5 " I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

6 " have noticed that people do not change which feature they lead with, any more than they change in character. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

7 " That’s how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

8 " He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

9 " he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

10 " I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal and not getting quite enough to eat. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

11 " This was the sort of situation that she read about in the novels she favored, by authors such as Miss Jane Austen, whom Margaret was sure she’d met long ago at the Assembly Rooms the first time we visited Lyme. One of Miss Austen’s books had even featured Lyme Regis, but I did not read fiction and could not be persuaded to try it. Life itself was far messier and didn’t end so tidily with the heroine making the right match. We Philpot sisters were the very embodiment of that frayed life. I did not need novels to remind me of what I had missed. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

12 " For myself, it took only the early discovery of a golden ammonite, glittering on the beach between Lyme and Charmouth, for me to succumb to the seductive thrill of finding unexpected treasure. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

13 " Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

14 " I have always admired most those who lead with their eyes, like Mary Anning, for they seem more aware of the world and its workings. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

15 " We had not meant our choice to cut us off from our past, but it did. We had only the present and the future to think of in Lyme. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

16 " Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary—and she herself—might yet have a chance at marriage. While my own experience of life was limited, I knew such a thing would not happen. It hurt, but the truth often does. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

17 " But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted and growing bored with it. Now I had too much time to think about whether I was going to die from the tide "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

18 " married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable. I patted my basket. “I have my own fossils, "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

19 " spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit a person’s perspective. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures

20 " Era un pensiero doloroso ma la verità lo è sovente. "

― Tracy Chevalier , Remarkable Creatures