Peggy Kopman-Owens Quotes

Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.

For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

Reading inspires us to reach further, imagine more, and search for our passports.

I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, Pourquoi?

The wisdom of other cultures is one of the greatest gifts that a traveler can bring home. It takes no room in your suitcase - only an open mind and an open heart.

Whatever the unknown in Europe, it had to be better than the known in a small town, where truth was hidden behind smiles, pleasantries, and an abundance of stretch lace at weddings. Whatever, the yet-to-be-written truth about her own life, it seemed certain to be waiting elsewhere on a blank page, somewhere people made no attempt to predict the future based upon a person's past.
Quote from: A Summer Abroad, Mrs. Duchesney's First Real Mystery
c. 2013 Peggy Kopman-Owens

In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.