The Wheel of Fortune Quotes

“...lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.”
― Susan Howatch, 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, 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, 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, The Wheel of Fortune

“Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.”
― Susan Howatch, The Wheel of Fortune

“Death’s everywhere, that’s the truth of it. You can’t hide from him, he’ll come and get you when he wants you no matter where you are. So in that case the way to outwit him, in the limited time available, isn’t to retreat into a way of life which is alien to you; the way to outwit him is to live the life you were put on this earth to lead. It’s wrong to waste yourself in work that means nothing to you. It’s not only a waste of talent. It’s a prostitution of the soul.”
― Susan Howatch, The Wheel of Fortune

“In fact the great truth of life is that the things most people think are important aren’t really important at all.”
― Susan Howatch, The Wheel of Fortune

“I saw that locked up in his nineteenth-century metaphysical illusions he was unapproachable.”
― Susan Howatch, The Wheel of Fortune

“one should stick to one’s principles and never compromise them just to do the done thing!”
― Susan Howatch, The Wheel of Fortune

“It is frightening to be different,” said Anna.”
― Susan Howatch, The Wheel of Fortune

“Ginevra,” said my uncle, all despair at once annihilated by his rage, “I swear to you I shall never, never, NEVER, so long as I live, go back to that woman!” He went back to her six months later.”
― Susan Howatch, 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, The Wheel of Fortune

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― Susan Howatch, 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, 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, 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, The Wheel of Fortune