Touch Not the Cat Quotes

“The only reply was Cathy, bravely treading behind me like Wenceslas’ page.”
― Mary Stewart, Touch Not the Cat

“She had been a highly intelligent, incisive woman, who had written a couple of novels that had dropped dead on the market, but that had contained a good deal of quiet but acid observation of the people around her.”
― Mary Stewart, Touch Not the Cat: A Haunting Gothic Mystery of Debt, Death, and a Devastating Family Curse

“You cannot keep as part of you something which is alien to what you believe, something you know to be wrong. The ancients used to call it “possession”. It was a good word, for ownership by something alien; the turning aside of oneself from one’s own straight track.”
― Mary Stewart, Touch Not the Cat

“Anyway, what you were saying about class, that wasn't the point.'

'I know. And I don't say it doesn't exist, but I think it's nothing to do with money or family, or the old-fashioned things that went to make it up. I think it's habits of mind and ways of thinking.”
― Mary Stewart, Touch Not the Cat: A Haunting Gothic Mystery of Debt, Death, and a Devastating Family Curse