# Quote — Susan Howatch, The Wheel Of Fortune

> 'Acquiring carnal knowledge is like swimming in the sea ... The sea's so beautiful to look at, so wonderful to swim in, but you must never bathe unless it's safe. People so often drown in the sea and some coasts are so very dangerous, ... like the Coast of Gower.'

- Author: [Susan Howatch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch.md)
- Book: [The Wheel Of Fortune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Howatch#Part_1:_Robert) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/acquiring-carnal-knowledge

## More from this book

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/ghosts-unshriven-souls.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/to-be-distracted.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/i-deserve-to-be-thought.md)