Gramercy Park Quotes

“Home isn't a place at all. Home is having someone's face light up when you walk into a room.”
― Paula Cohen, Gramercy Park: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

“The angels, presumably, do not tire of heaven. Mankind, however, being mortally flawed, quickly wearies of perfection, which is doubtless why God invented the seasons.”
― Paula Cohen, Gramercy Park: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

“Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless safely dead, and that meeting them risks both needless mental fatigue and the possibility of social contamination.”
― Paula Cohen, Gramercy Park: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age