125 Quotes by Ruth Ware

Was this what it was going to be like? Was I turning into someone who had panic attacks about walking home from the tube or staying the night alone in the house without their boyfriend? No, fuck that. I would not be that person.

A lie can outlast any truth.

There was something strangely naked about it, like we were on a stage set, playing our parts to an audience of eyes out there in the wood.

STOP DIGGING.' The letters on the mirror were etched in my memory. Now, as I finished my make-up with a swipe of lip-gloss, I huffed on the mirror, and wrote in the steam obscuring my reflection one word: 'NO'.

I wanted to scream. The panic built inside me like a volcano, pressing up through the layers of closed throat and clenched teeth. And then I thought, in a kind of delirium - if I scream, what's the worst that can happen? Someone might hear? Let them hear.

Here, in this house the ghosts of our past are real

Was it really possible she was dead?But the alternative was not much better. Because if she wasn't, the only other possibility - and suddenly I wasn't sure if it was better or worse - was that I was going mad.

For a travel journalist I’m worryingly bad at geography.

Reading the cards (tarot) was revealing, and not only for the client.