# Quote — Susan Howatch, The Wheel Of Fortune

> Death had won my three friends; Death had almost won me. But now I was the one who was going to win and I was going to win by outwitting Death over and over again ... To compete with Death, as I had discovered in the mountains, was to know one was alive.

- 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/death-had-won

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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.

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

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

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