Quote by Ruth Ware Download Open image ““You’re never an ex-addict, you’re just an addict who hasn’t had a fix in a while.”” — Ruth Ware ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Addiction is only a hopeless attempt to deal with the pain of living cutoff from who we really are.” — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
“And isn't that just typical of an addict? They're always fucking sorry once they're okay” — Cari Waites Copy Share Image
“That’s all addiction really is. It’s trading away the future so you can feel OK right now.” — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“Addiction,” I say simply. “It can span an entire lifetime if untreated.” “What’s the treatment?” “I don’t really care.” “Me neither,” she says.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It’s a bad trade,… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“I might be developing an addiction. You being my drug of choice. Rehab is 'not' an option, my love is forever. Just so you… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
“Feeling addicted to an ex makes letting them go excruciatingly hard even when you rationally want to move on.” — Dr. Cortney Warren Copy Share Image
“If only it were that easy. You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.” — David Sheff Copy Share Image
“A drug addict shouldn’t forever be treated like one, reminded that they’d once succumbed to the drug.” — Sarah Noffke 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
