Ruth Saberton > Quotes

“My weight is a bit like the state of my bank account; if I don't check the balance I can't get upset.”
― Ruth Saberton, Weight Till Christmas

“Now there are only fragments left, memories disintegrating like autumn leaves and answers always tantalisingly out of reach. The “if onlys” are the saddest things in the world.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“We look for sense and we search for patterns or a grand design in the desperate attempt to make meaning out of what frightens us the most – the possibility that there is no meaning. Bad things happen to good people. Evil prospers. Young fit men get sick and die. Children starve. Teenagers are murdered in bomb blasts at music concerts. There is no reason or divine plan. Crap things happen. End of.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“each small absence is a sly ambush of hurt.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Locket

“floss”
― Ruth Saberton, Escape for the Summer

“Had she pushed him too hard? If she had, then it was only with the best of intentions.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Rhythm of the Tide

“the head. His vile words had gouged deep wounds in her heart, and she was glad to learn the officers had departed early. The idea of encountering Hamilton today was not one Estella relished.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Promise

“I realise that what seems to matter so much to us in the here and now is nothing in comparison to the sea and the rocks and the turning of the tides; we’re just tiny grains in the sands of time.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“I think we all make our mark in some way. OK, not everyone changes the world by landing on the moon or creating great works of literature but we all make a difference. And what’s the world anyway, except our experience of it? How do we know that a kind word or smile doesn’t alter the course of somebody else’s history? What seems small to us can be huge to another person. I think the thing I enjoy most about history is trying to uncover the small acts and the little details that make a bigger picture.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“The problem was, a tantrum in a six-year-old translated to a nasty temper in an adult.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Island Legacy

“One thing she knew for certain was that when it came to her boss up there, there were no coincidences – just answers to prayer. What if God, who had a very good sense of humour, had decided to answer both her prayers at once?”
― Ruth Saberton, Runaway Summer

“Rosecraddick.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“but sometimes things change, Josh, and then they’re different. It’s how we handle those changes that counts.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Island Legacy

“Insufficient funds? How on earth could there be insufficient funds in her personal account? Andi was always in credit and, unlike her sister Angel (who was probably single-handedly to blame for the economic downturn),”
― Ruth Saberton, Escape for the Summer

“I don’t think we ever let go of loved ones. They’re always in our hearts. I do think time lessens the pain of a loss but they never, ever leave us. That’s what memories are for.”
― Ruth Saberton

“When Dante was writing his “Inferno” he was careful to include only nine circles of hell. For his readers’ sake, he decided to leave out the tenth and the most terrifying circle of all. Forget pits of fire and demons armed with pitchforks; those are nothing, absolutely nothing, compared to the hell that is shopping in the West End on a Saturday during the lead-up to Christmas.”
― Ruth Saberton, Dead Romantic

“Sometimes different isn’t all bad, is it? We just have to look for the parts that are good.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Island Legacy

“up at the ancient buildings built of pale Cotswold limestone and dusted with lichen. Latticed windows wink and sparkle, grey rooftops meet the bright blue sky, and more bicycles than”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“Sometimes the thing we long for the most is where we least expect it to be, there all along and simply waiting for us to recognise it.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“I think we all make our mark in some way. OK, not everyone changes the world by landing on the moon or creating great works of literature, but we all make a difference.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“a new Chloe is going to take shape. I don’t know her yet but it’s time I made her acquaintance.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“Love has no limits. Love isn’t bound by time. And, ultimately, love is why we are all here today and why we carry on.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“Life had twisted him, disappointment and loss warping him into a different shape from the one that he should have taken, and there was a lesson to be learned from this. She could choose to follow his path and allow bitterness to bend her, or she could take charge of her own Fate, pick up the pieces of the life she had been granted, and make a good future for her daughter.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Locket

“I contemplate the strange nature of grief. Some people hide from it, others devote their entire lives to mourning, and the bravest get on with living. I’m not sure what category I fall into yet.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“I think love comes in many different forms and I believe we can love more than once in our lifetime too.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“lifting stones as they worked to lay a new road for top secret ends.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Promise

“bow to”
― Ruth Saberton, The Locket

“The road can fork at any point. There are so many possibilities, aren’t there, and so many ‘what ifs’,”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“things might hurt now, but at least I can feel).”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter

“At that age they glow with a potential they won’t understand or even know they possess until it’s gone and too late.”
― Ruth Saberton, The Letter