There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety. Ruth Rendell More Quotes by Ruth Rendell More Quotes From Ruth Rendell I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. Ruth Rendell driven want thinking I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it. Ruth Rendell letters writing people The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account. Ruth Rendell psychology human-nature trouble To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs. Ruth Rendell insult cutting character Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing. Ruth Rendell real names perfect We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. Ruth Rendell real dream may It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world. Ruth Rendell world-love best-love lovers I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. Ruth Rendell widows marriage two Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. Ruth Rendell invisible growing light Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car. Ruth Rendell car civilization years Nobody really lives in the present. Ruth Rendell live-in-the-present there must be a routine to life, a framework to hang life on. Routines were what kept you sane, gave you something to do at this moment and at that, definite places to go, positive things to do. Abandon it and that way madness lies. Ruth Rendell routine order lying the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon. Ruth Rendell climate england weather They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself. Ruth Rendell annoying noise Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Ruth Rendell reading life-is book The knives of jealousy are honed on details. Ruth Rendell knives details jealousy I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. Ruth Rendell humiliating would-be thinking The worst has happened ... it's rather liberating. Ruth Rendell disaster worst loss When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions. Ruth Rendell secret heart children Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write. Ruth Rendell writing
