Ruth

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“Our lives are one masked ball.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.”
― Steven Moffat