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

—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway

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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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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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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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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

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