Ruth

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

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

“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

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