Susan Howatch

Quotes

1. 'Barbarity's everywhere, that's the truth of it. Absolutely anyone is capable of absolutely anything.'

   'My dear Papa, I had no idea you were such a cynic!'

   'That's not cynicism, that's honesty — as you well know, dealing with criminals as you do, seeing the human race continually at its worst.'

2. 

   Every woman needs a special friend of her own sex with whom she can 'have a haircombing' about everything from menstruation to male monsters, and Julie had become that kind of special friend.

3. 

   Life's for living, not for mourning ... Live in the present, not the past.

4. 

   Recovering from an ill-starred romance is, after all, to anyone of sufficient will-power and self-respect, purely an attitude of mind.

5. 

   True doppelgängers should never meet face-to-face, you know.

6. 

   Sexual desire has to be dead as a doornail before a man and a woman can be genuinely at peace in a platonic relationship.

7. 

   '... we have to be kind, we have to be charitable and we can't condemn people just because they get in a mess...even the best people can get into ghastly messes,...we must never judge other people too harshly because although they can make awful mistakes they can still be very nice people.'

8. 

   Boredom on social occasions is an inescapable hazard for the over-educated, and for the over-ambitious it must be endured.

9. 

   'But never mind, all the best heroines are beautiful orphans, abandoned to their fate, and the one thing that's certain about my situation is that I'm going to be a heroine when I grow up.'

   'Can I be a hero?'

   'Well, I suppose you can try. But you'll have to try very hard.'

10. 

    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.

11. 

    But magic can't operate without a magician, and being a magician can beat a man to his knees.

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