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.

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

—Ruth Ware in The Death of Mrs. Westaway

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

—Ruth Ware in Dark Wood

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

I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best.

—Katherine Center in The Lost Husband

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

—Edith Wharton

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

—G. K. Chesterton

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God's.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

—Flip Wilson