Susanna Clarke Quotes

When the only thing you look forward to in life is lunch, you know you have had your just desserts, and it is time to call it a day.

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

Life does not owe me a shred.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

I never promised you a rose garden.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you.

From my own kind I only learn How foolish comfort is

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

It's hard to blow an ugly bubble.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

Nothing is worse than having your dreams come true.