“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 people on the other side of the wall become, not just them, but them. The outsiders.… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
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… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“Airports say work and security checks and delays. Ports say... I don’t know. Something completely different. Escape, maybe.” — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“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,… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it. — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“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… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“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… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“I am running. I am running through moonlit woods, with branches ripping at my clothes and my feet catching in the snow-bowed bracken.” — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“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” — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
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… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and then go back and… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of life and a… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image