La Fortune de Cassia Quotes

“Fleur who had started from nothing, who had no rich parents,”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“I made a fuss about his affairs, I was the opposite of loyal and supportive.”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“Ludovic, you don’t understand. It makes me feel far far worse. That he couldn’t tell me about it, share all this with me.”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“and I grew up with no one. Except my grandmother. And even she died.”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“She didn’t tell him about the cancer. She didn’t want to tell anyone about it. It seemed to make everything worse.”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“I failed him. He needed me and I failed him. God, Roger, how am I going to bear this, what am I going to do?”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“I’m sorry, Roger, but that doesn’t make me feel any better. Worse if anything. All that, knowing that, and he didn’t tell me, kept it to himself. He must have been so frightened, so wretched. I can’t have been much of a wife.”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“when she heard Ned calling her name on the baby alarm;”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“I’m sorry, George,’ said the features editor, Colin Firth,”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“this is all exactly like an episode of Starsky and Hutch.”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“he’d gone to Kennedy with her and kissed her goodbye tenderly and said he would miss her. ‘I’ll miss you too,’ said Fleur, hugging him hard at passport control.”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“Joe, if people behave well, the truth can’t harm them. If they behave badly – correction, if they behave badly and then try to cover that behaviour up, then in my opinion they deserve everything they get.”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“mangetouts”
― Penny Vincenzi, An Outrageous Affair: A Novel

“From the very beginning it seemed very clear to her that if you were going to succeed in life you succeeded on your own terms, in your own style, you capitalized on your own strengths, you learnt to camouflage your own weaknesses and you didn’t get caught up in anyone else’s. And Fleur was going to succeed.”
― Penny Vincenzi, La Fortune de Cassia