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“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

“I wanted to go and get Ruth again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and…

— Jack Kerouac

“Me and Ruth minus Ruth leaves me Ruthless—and makes me ruthless.”

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in,…

— John Irving

“That's actually happened?' Ruth asked. 'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said.”

— John Irving

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

— Paula McLain

“. . . the story of Ruth . . .was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our…

— John Piper

“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

“Ruth tells me at least once a day that old people, or people getting old, tend to disengage, back away, turn inward, listen only…

— Wallace Stegner

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

— Billy Graham