# Susan Howatch

- Quotes: 35
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch

## Books

- [The Wheel Of Fortune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune.md) — 35 quotes

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> Ghosts, unshriven souls, psychological hang-ups — they all exist in the mind to put people through hell — they're just different ways [...] of looking at a given situation.

> 'To be distracted is pardonable. To be incoherent is simply unobliging.'

> 'I deserve to be thought a coward. I am a coward. I'm just so bloody afraid of dying — of losing —'

> Kester wrote about people and since human nature doesn't change his observations hadn't dated.

> 'Bloody men! sometimes I feel I hate them all.'

> 'Little girls don't stay playmates. Little girls become big girls and big girls become sweethearts.'

> Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied, it anaesthesises them from the pain of their disordered second-rate lives [...] If romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied then surely nostalgia is the opiate of the disillusioned, for those who see all their dreams come true and find themselves living in a nightmare.

> 'Friendship's best,' I said, 'and friendship's forever because no baby can come along to spoil it.'

> One must be rational about such matters and being rational need not mean being cold.

> Distrust grows out of lies. Wrong-doing grows out of distrust. Tragedy grows out of wrong-doing. But out of honesty grows love and love's so powerful, it'll be like a suit of armour, protecting Robert, protecting you.

> 'Success on that scale don't make for happiness. Look at Asquith. Why does he drink? I wouldn't want you to end up a drunkard like that.'

> Christ, all you psychiatrists think about is sex — sex, sex, sex, sex, sex ...