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Book: The Lady and the Unicorn
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  1. Tracy Chevalier _ The Lady and the Unicorn

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  2. Tracy Chevalier _ The Lady and the Unicorn

    His parting would have been solemn but we were too busy to think much of it. We were weaving fourteen hours a day then, with hardly a moment for meals, and I was dizzy with the pattern of the tapestry in front of me even when I wasn't weaving. I fell into bed each night and slept without moving until Madeleine woke me in the morning. There was little time left to think about a man's departure. The night before Nicolas went the"
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  3. Tracy Chevalier _ The Lady and the Unicorn

    I feel like a bird who has been wounded with an arrow and now cannot fly.
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  4. Tracy Chevalier _ The Lady and the Unicorn

    Warp threads are thicker than the weft, and made of a coarser wool as well. I think of them as like wives. Their work is not obvious - all you can see are the ridges they make under the colorful weft threads. But if they weren't there, there would be no tapestry. Georges would unravel without me.
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  5. Tracy Chevalier _ The Lady and the Unicorn

    I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are."
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