--- title: "1 Flashbacks Quotes By Ruth Ware" description: "1 Flashbacks quotes by Ruth Ware. Plus more from Ruth Ware and more Flashbacks sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/ruth-ware-19683_change_i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chi_341556.jpg" --- > [“I dwelled heavily on the image of me chipping away at the lock with a nail file and didn’t tell her about the gloves, or the general sense of powerless terror, or the horribly vivid flashbacks that kept ambushing me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chipping-away-at-the-lock-with-a/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/ruth-ware-19683_change_i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chi_341556.jpg) ## More by Ruth Ware > [I'm not 100% sure 'Rebecca' qualifies as a thriller, given it's three parts screwed-up love story and two parts ghost-story-without-a-ghost, but the mystery at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/i-m-not-100-sure-rebecca-qualifies-as-a-thriller-given-it-s-three/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [“Airports say work and security checks and delays. Ports say... I don’t know. Something completely different. Escape, maybe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/airports-say-work-and-security-checks-and-delays-ports-say-i-don-t/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [As a reader, I read quite widely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/as-a-reader-i-read-quite-widely/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [“I dwelled heavily on the image of me chipping away at the lock with a nail file and didn’t tell her about the gloves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chipping-away-at-the-lock-with-a/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/we-are-all-at-the-center-of-our-own-narrative-but-it-s-a-narrative/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [“That’s the trouble with having a “click” as Mary Wren might call it. When you define yourself by walls, who’s in, who’s out. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/that-s-the-trouble-with-having-a-click-as-mary-wren-might-call-it/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [“There is no gray when you’re young. There’s only goodies and baddies, right and wrong. The rules are very clear—a playground morality of ethical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/there-is-no-gray-when-you-re-young-there-s-only-goodies-and-baddies/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [“I am running. I am running through moonlit woods, with branches ripping at my clothes and my feet catching in the snow-bowed bracken.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/i-am-running-i-am-running-through-moonlit-woods-with-branches-ripping/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [“It’s not that Nina doesn’t feel stuff. She just deals with it differently than most people. Sarcasm is her defense against life. “Let’s”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/it-s-not-that-nina-doesn-t-feel-stuff-she-just-deals-with-it/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to keep reminding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/seeing-my-book-on-a-billboard-in-new-york-was-a-bucket-list-type/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/i-write-as-if-i-m-someone-reading-the-book-often-people-ask-if-i/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of life and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/one-of-my-desert-island-books-the-leopard-is-not-so-much-a-novel-as-a/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or I find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/if-i-m-writing-a-furiously-angry-scene-i-have-to-consciously-snap-out/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [“But I did feel violated. My little flat felt ruined–soiled and unsafe. Even describing it to the police had felt like an ordeal…”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/but-i-did-feel-violated-my-little-flat-felt-ruined-soiled-and-unsafe/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) > [“there was genuine pity in her face, but also a kind of glee, the sort you see sometimes when teens are interviewed about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/there-was-genuine-pity-in-her-face-but-also-a-kind-of-glee-the-sort/) [Ruth Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-ware/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flashbacks/ruth-ware/#itemlist", "name": "1 Flashbacks Quotes By Ruth Ware", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I dwelled heavily on the image of me chipping away at the lock with a nail file and didn’t tell her about the gloves, or the general sense of powerless terror, or the horribly vivid flashbacks that kept ambushing me just as I was rummaging for change, or stirring tea, or thinking of something else completely. “Shit.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ruth Ware" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-ware/i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chipping-away-at-the-lock-with-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/ruth-ware-19683_change_i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chi_341556.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/ruth-ware-19683_change_i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chi_341556.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/ruth-ware-19683_change_i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chi_341556.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I dwelled heavily on the image of me chipping away at the lock with a nail file and didn’t tell her about…” — Ruth Ware", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flashbacks/ruth-ware/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flashbacks/ruth-ware/", "name": "Flashbacks Quotes by Ruth Ware", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flashbacks/ruth-ware/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af6/ruth-ware-19683_change_i-dwelled-heavily-on-the-image-of-me-chi_341556.jpg" }, "description": "1 Flashbacks quotes by Ruth Ware. 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