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“You strike me as a gentle soul," she says. I've never thought of myself as gentle. Fragile is more like it. Prone to bruising.”
― Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“Winning is an archaic way or looking at romance. Her heart isn't like a cheap round of cards. Love isn't a game. It's a choice.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Becoming the Dark Prince

“I thought of all the mums who had dropped their children off talking about how exhausted they were, and the slight contempt I’d felt for them when all they had to deal with was one or two at the most, but now I realized what they’d been talking about. It wasn’t as physical as the work at the nursery, or as intense, but it was the way it stretched, endlessly, the way the needing never stopped, and there was never a moment when you could hand them over to your colleague and run away for a quick fag break to just be yourself. I”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key

“The ghosts, she had sobbed. The ghosts wouldn’t like it.”
― Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key