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… — Ruth Ware Heart Copy Share Image
“Airports say work and security checks and delays. Ports say... I don’t know. Something completely different. Escape, maybe.” — Ruth Ware Cybersecurity 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… — Ruth Ware Change 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 Center 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… — Ruth Ware Define yourself 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… — Ruth Ware Character 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… — 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.… — Ruth Ware Life 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… — Ruth Ware Book 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… — Ruth Ware Books 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… — Ruth Ware Books Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a furiously angry scene, I have to consciously snap out of it when I shut down the computer, or… — Ruth Ware Anger Copy Share Image
“But I did feel violated. My little flat felt ruined–soiled and unsafe. Even describing it to the police had felt like an… — Ruth Ware Burglary Copy Share Image
“there was genuine pity in her face, but also a kind of glee, the sort you see sometimes when teens are interviewed… — Ruth Ware Adventure Copy Share Image
“Was this what it was going to be like? Was I turning into someone who had panic attacks about walking home from… — Ruth Ware Anxiety Copy Share Image
“You’re never an ex-addict, you’re just an addict who hasn’t had a fix in a while.” — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“what if I ended up split down the middle when the train divided, living two lives, each diverging from the other all… — Ruth Ware Fitness Copy Share Image
“Of course the one type of sashimi you really must try is fugu,” Alexander said expansively, smoothing his napkin across his straining… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
“Remember, I’m a doctor. I know at least 3 ways to kill you without leaving a trace. Nx” — Ruth Ware Medicine Copy Share Image
“A lie. I'd almost forgotten how they feel on my tongue, slick and sickening.” — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine… — Ruth Ware Absolutely Copy Share Image
“I remember the mantra of visitors when she was a newborn—sleep when the baby sleeps! And I wanted to laugh. I wanted… — Ruth Ware Sleep Copy Share Image
