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

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.'

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