Elizabeth-garden Quote by Elizabeth Garden

“For the record, Ruth, I would have welcomed any path my life took, so long as it was with you.”

— Melissa Hill

“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

“Ruth could have left me the carry-along case. Taking a boyfriend would have been enough for most. Not Ruth. She wanted luggage too.”

— Lucy-Anne Holmes

“Both Ruth and Ted visited him together and in separate sessions.”

— Walter Terry

“Are you always this wise, Ruth?" "Only when it comes to other people's lives.”

— Paula McLain

“Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.”

— Sarah Sundin

“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

“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything…

— Wallace Stegner

“Ruth smiles, which rearranges the lines on her face. She inverts her parentheses and transforms commas into apostrophes. The pattern is that of a…

— Julie Buxbaum

“She put her arm around my shoulder and squeezed me. She whispered, "It's not the worst thing, Ruthie, drifting. You'll see. You'll see.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight. I still…

— Robert B. Parker

“with a smile. Then she pushed one”

— Bella Andre