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Susan Moody
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“Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West ...”
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“... she fingered the edge of his mother's sorrow like a tailor feeling the quality of a rival's well-made suit. Was it anything like the pain she had felt ... ?”
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“You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.”
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“... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.”
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“Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.”
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“... impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.”
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“... martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.”
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“Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.”
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“... her voice ... slides over her words like cold water, as though they were stones and had no life.”
Susan Moody, English writer
(1940)
Real name: Susan Elizabeth Horwood Donaldson.