I have not spoken to him for ten years, but I thought of him every single day.

—Ruth Ware in Dark Wood

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About Ruth Ware

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Ruth Warburton (born 1977), known by the pen name Ruth Ware, is a British author.

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I see someone who's trying very hard. I see someone who's nervous, but stronger than she knows. I see someone who's worried, but doesn't need to be.

—Ruth Ware in The Lying Game

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How could it be right that some people had so much, while others had so little?

—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Time healed, they said, but it wasn't true, or not completely. The first raw wound of loss had closed and silvered over, yes, but the scar it had left would never heal. It would always be there, aching and tender.

—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway

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More quotations tagged with “thought”

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

—Robert Quillen

How many scholars are there whose single book or article has generated more intellectual energy than the collected works of other, quantitatively far more 'productive,' scholars? The commensurating device known as the 'tape measure' may tell us that a Vermeer interior and a cow plop are both twenty inches across; there, however, the similarity ends.

—James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism

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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

—Michelangelo

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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