Susan Howatch Quotes

Success on that scale don't make for happiness. Look at Asquith. Why does he drink? I wouldn't want you to end up a drunkard like that.

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

Bloody men! sometimes I feel I hate them all.

Christ, all you psychiatrists think about is sex — sex, sex, sex, sex, sex ...

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.

... 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.

Again, be patient. And have courage. Remember, everything passes, even the most unspeakable horrors.

Redemption's just a word and as I'm not a Christian it means nothing to me.

Distrust grows out of lies. Wrong-doing grows out of distrust. Tragedy grows out of wrong-doing. But out of honesty grows love and love's so powerful, it'll be like a suit of armour, protecting Robert, protecting you.

Little girls don't stay playmates. Little girls become big girls and big girls become sweethearts.

One must be rational about such matters and being rational need not mean being cold.

The English don't have opinions about the Irish. They have prejudices.

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

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

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