Top 15 Susan Howatch Quotes

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

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

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

The one advantage of being childless is that one can choose one's children and so avoid the bizarre game of chance in which one passes one's best — or one's worst — genes to one's poor innocent offspring.

Bloody men! sometimes I feel I hate them all.

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.

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

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

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

He wasn't just being selfish, he was being realistic. Marriage would have been very difficult if not downright impossible.

More tears. Disgraceful. I was getting just like Kester, weeping at the drop of a hat, but of course I was Kester. I'd become him, and now there was just this other stranger who wrote me debonair notes and who sounded just like me.

What a bloody jungle income tax is! It's a wonder we don't all go on strike and refuse to pay.

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

... 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.

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.