Joyce

“She wasn't there. He wouldn't have had to look too closely. She stood out from others like an angel in hell or a rose in a sewer.”
― Ruth Rendell, Thirteen Steps Down

“The sensations he had were shared by many of the young, poor and beautiful: how unfair it was that they should be denied benefits which the old and ugly enjoyed.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes

“Don’t hate anyone,” she had said. “It’s quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated.”
― Ruth Rendell, The Girl Next Door

“Like all true eccentrics, he thought other people very odd.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone