Fear Quote by Amy Tan

“Just think, Ruth, I never did it for anybody else before. Now nobody in the whole world knows I can do that but you.…

— Fannie Flagg

“In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse…

— John Irving

“That night she again slept in the back of her brother’s car, hidden under her raincoat, afraid of the rats, of the police, and…

— Philip Carlo

“Ruth had been a girl haunted and now she would be a woman haunted. First by accident and now by choice. All of it,…

— Alice Sebold

“Some things, she thought, weren’t worth hiding anymore.”

— D.L. Maddox

“This is true freedom: a mind that is no longer deceived by itself. Ruth:”

— Byron Katie

“I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she…

— Alice Sebold

“In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just…

— Jack Ketchum

“She’d said nothing about keeping this a secret, but I knew I would never mention it to my mother or my father or anyone.…

— Hyeonseo Lee

“Though she'd never been ashamed of what she'd done, she'd kept it secret because she'd understood that others wouldn't view it the same way…

— Kresley Cole

“Anything you try to hide will come out eventually, either by your own confession or by accident.”

— Nandini Deka

“At nearly two months,the idea of it as news was fading in the hearts of all but my family-and Ruth”

— Alice Sebold