“...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“and daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“There is no timetable for grief,” said Bronwen Morgan. “Grief isn’t a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief’s time is beyond time, and time itself … isn’t very important.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“Why does no one ever admit that hatred and love can exist side by side, each emotion genuine but only one ever acknowledged as real?”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“don’t play bridge but I’m going to learn. The”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“We know so little,” she said, “about even those who are closest to us. We know so little of what really goes on in other people’s lives.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“Marrying for love might be romantic but I considered it the hallmark of an undisciplined private life. Romance is the opiate of the dissatisfied; it anesthetizes them from the pain of their disordered second-rate lives.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“Personally I can think of nothing more terrifying than to live in a land where law and order have no meaning and violence is the rule of the day.”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
Susan Howatch
Born place: in Leatherhead, Surrey, The United Kingdom
Born date July 14, 1940
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“But whosh mocking who, Moan Sooie, who hung hope on me like a pre-lit fuse, I mean shit and goddamn, why supply a set of perfecktly good teeth then kick ‘em, one by precious one, out of my sorry cranium?”
― Vanessa Place, quote from La Medusa
“Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to examine them, though, the words seem hollow, seem to rattle at my feet like empty cans.”
― Yōko Ogawa, quote from The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
“She was flustered; he could see it in the
way she kept twisting her fingers together. Did she think he was going to throw her down
on the seat and rape her? After all, he was a renegade Indian, and capable of anything.
Then again, the way she looked, maybe this was the most excitement she'd ever had.”
― Linda Howard, quote from Mackenzie's Mountain
“Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from High Tide in Tucson
“But where do you go to get away from what’s always there?”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Ceremony in Death
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