Best 13 quotes of Ruth Ware on MyQuotes

A lie can outlast any truth.

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

i felt my face turn scarlet as if the sun were burning me alive

I felt my breath whimper in my throat. I tried to speak, but I was dumb. I tried to move, but I was frozen with fear. She opened her mouth, and I knew that she was about to speak - but then she reached inside, and pulled out her tongue.

If there's one thing I dislike more than being hurt, it's being seen to be hurt.

I switched the light out and drew the cover across myself, but I didn't sleep. Instead I lay on my side watching the sea, rising and falling in strange, hypnotic silence outside the thick, storm-proof panes. And I thought, there is a murderer on this boat. And no one knows but me.

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.

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

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'.

The people who came to her booth were seeking meaning and control - but they were looking in the wrong place. When they gave themselves over to superstition, they were giving up on shaping their own destiny.

This place felt like a tomb. Maybe it was mine.

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.

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.