125 Quotes by Ruth Ware

Trepassen was too Gothic and gloomy to ever feel like a truly welcoming place.

I know what it’s like. Don’t you see? I know what she must have felt like, when someone came for her in the middle of the night. That’s why I have to find out who did this to her.

So having a routine is important. It gives you something to hang on to, something to differentiate the weekdays from the weekends. My day starts like this. At.

There are some things you shouldn’t have to remember.

I wanted to write in my diary – to do as I always do when things get too much – let it out onto the page, like a kind of bloodletting, letting the ink and paper soak up all the grief and anger and fear until I can cope again.

It’s like opening up the back of the machine to see the crude workings grinding away inside. There’s a disappointment in the banality of what makes people tick, but at the same time, there’s a kind of fascination at seeing the inner coils and cogs. The trouble is that the next day they almost invariably resent you for having seen them naked and unguarded. So I’m deliberately reserved and noncommittal, trying not to lead them on.

Maybe that was closer to the truth – we weren’t captor and captive, but two animals in different compartments of the same cage. Hers was just slightly larger.

How could it be right that some people had so much, while others had so little?

Cognitive behavioral therapy, counseling, psychotherapy – none of it really worked in the way that the pills did. Lissie says she finds the notion of chemically rebalancing your mood scary, she says it’s the idea of taking something that could alter how she really is. But I don’t see it that way; for me it’s like wearing makeup – not a disguise, but a way of making myself more how I really am, less raw. The best me I can be.