Susan Howatch: Being

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“He wasn't just being selfish, he was being realistic. Marriage would have been very difficult if not downright impossible.'
'Marriage is always very difficult if not downright impossible,' said my father.
'Oh Harry, for God's sake forget I mentioned the group therapy! Run off and listen to a string quartet!”

Susan Howatch book The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

God , Marriage , Selfishness , Forgetting

“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.”

Susan Howatch book The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal

Children , Game , Chance

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

Susan Howatch book The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

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

Susan Howatch book The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 6: Hal