The Property of a Gentleman Quotes

“All I needed was a little time. A time to get used to the creature who had broken from the chrysalis; the wings yet were feeble and uncertain.”
― Catherine Gaskin, The Property of a Gentleman

“Strangers who have talked too much were often better never to meet again.”
― Catherine Gaskin, The Property of a Gentleman

“His knowledge of his origins was Harry's strength - more than any other man I had ever known. His women were the decorations of his success; no particular woman, it seemed, was essential to him.”
― Catherine Gaskin, The Property of a Gentleman

“I'll never leave here. If I left here, I'd die. And I'll die before I leave here.”
― Catherine Gaskin, The Property of a Gentleman

“The face I saw always seemed to belong to a stranger - was it because I tried to please too many people too often, and had never given myself a chance to let my own personality come through on it?”
― Catherine Gaskin, The Property of a Gentleman

“snowing, the snow blanketing the terrible debris. The man shivered and longed for the Mexican sun. The bodies of the victims were in the school of the small village near to where the plane had come down. The body of Vanessa Roswell had already been identified, so he went to a hotel five miles away to which the police directed him. There he found, sitting in silence before a fire in a private sitting-room, Gerald Stanton and a young woman, a beautiful young woman, he thought, gauging her with his painter’s eye, whose face now wore the numbed expression”
― Catherine Gaskin, The Property of a Gentleman

“takeoff. Among those killed was a Junior British Cabinet Minister, half of a Dutch football team, an antique dealer from London by the name of Vanessa Roswell, and a man, presumed to be a Dutchman, whose body no one came to claim, and whose passport the authorities, after close examination, found to be forged. Within hours of the crash the daughter of Vanessa Roswell and a friend, Gerald Stanton, were on their way to Zürich, with the desperate unspoken hope that Vanessa might be among the survivors; they had only”
― Catherine Gaskin, The Property of a Gentleman