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

“...selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

“People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.”
― Ruth Rendell, The Water's Lovely

“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”
― Ruth Rendell