"I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home"

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Source : Tracy Chevalier (2009). “Girl With a Pearl Earring”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

Tracy Chevalier

#Home Quotes #Streets Quotes

“Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.”
“I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.”
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.”
“We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.”
“We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.”
“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.”
“It's not the teaching, it's the learning.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 04, 2012
“That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.15, Hachette UK

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