Peggy Kopman-Owens > Peggy's Quotes

“Who knew? Spies read.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, The Seasons in the Garden

“In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, The Mist of Montmartre

“He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, PARIS, Apartment for Rent

“In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, The Clue - L' Indice

“There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, Too Rich For Rain

“The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, The Promise: Yposchesi

“For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, Underground - L' Autre Metro

“How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, Never Change

“This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, Never Change

“Reading inspires us to reach further, imagine more, and search for our passports.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens

“Avid readers are the most authentic creatures on the face of the earth, and their hearts and minds are not for sale at any price. "Mysteries for the Inspired Traveler" Goodreads blog”
― Kopman-Owens

“Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens

“Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, GAMAN The Japanese Art of Patience

“Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens

“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”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens

“Friendships outlive marriages and family. Friendships can make a life wonderful or wasted, worth sacrificing or worth saving. In the Paris-based 7-book Apricot Tree House Mystery Series, Jamie Litton and Ben Foulof choose to save each other because they have learned that friendship is that fragile thread tethering all of us between Heaven and Earth.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, The Promise: Yposchesi

“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.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens

“I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, Never Change

“In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens, A SUMMER ABROAD Mrs Duchensey's First Real Mystery

“An appreciation for diverse forms of artistic expression is not only the beginning of enlightenment, but is also the bedrock of inclusive civilization.”
― Peggy Kopman-Owens