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The Woman in Cabin 10 QUOTES

The Woman in Cabin 10 QUOTES

1 " Was this what it was going to be like? Was I turning into someone who had panic attacks about walking home from the tube or staying the night alone in the house without their boyfriend?
No, fuck that. I would not be that person. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

2 " I would never sleep. I knew that. Not with my blood ringing in my ears, and my heart beating an angry staccato rhythm in my chest. I would never relax. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

3 " I switched the light out and drew the cover across myself, but I didn't sleep. Instead I lay on my side watching the sea, rising and falling in strange, hypnotic silence outside the thick, storm-proof panes. And I thought, there is a murderer on this boat. And no one knows but me. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

4 " This place felt like a tomb. Maybe it was mine. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

5 " My friend Erin says we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we're no good, that if we don't make this promotion or ace that exam we'll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are Maybe that's true. Maybe mine just have louder voices. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

6 " Maybe that was closer to the truth--we weren't captor and captive, but two animals in different compartments of the same cage. Hers was just slightly larger. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

7 " There’s no reason, on paper at least, why I need these pills to get through life. I had a great childhood, loving parents, the whole package. I wasn’t beaten, abused, or expected to get nothing but As. I had nothing but love and support, but that wasn’t enough somehow. My friend Erin says we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we’re no good, that if we don’t make this promotion or ace that exam we’ll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are. Maybe that’s true. Maybe mine just have louder voices. But I don’t think it’s as simple as that. The depression I fell into after university wasn’t about exams and self-worth, it was something stranger, more chemical, something that no talking cure was going to fix. Cognitive behavioral therapy, counseling, psychotherapy—none of it really worked in the way that the pills did. Lissie says she finds the notion of chemically rebalancing your mood scary, she says it’s the idea of taking something that could alter how she really is. But I don’t see it that way; for me it’s like wearing makeup—not a disguise, but a way of making myself more how I really am, less raw. The best me I can be. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

8 " There’s a reason why we keep thoughts inside our heads for the most part—they’re not safe to be let out in public. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

9 " we all have demons inside us, voices that whisper we’re no good, that if we don’t make this promotion or ace that exam we’ll reveal to the world exactly what kind of worthless sacks of skin and sinew we really are. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

10 " There was a little spritz of sequined leaves across the right shoulder because you didn’t seem to be able to get away with none. Apparently the majority of ball gowns were designed by five-year-old girls armed with glitter guns, but at least this one didn’t look entirely like an explosion in a Barbie factory. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

11 " I jumped to a conclusion that was so wrong, it was almost completely right. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

12 " I love ports. I love the smell of tar and sea air, and the scream of the gulls. Maybe it's years of taking the ferry to France for summer holidays, but a harbor gives me a feeling of freedom in a way that an airport never does. Airports say work and security checks and delays. Ports say... I don't know. Something completely different. Escape, maybe. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

13 " It didn’t help that, unlike a ferry, there were no floor plans or maps, and minimal signage – supposed to help the impression that this was a private home that you just happened to share with a load of rich people. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

14 " I know what it's like. Don't you see? I know what she must have felt like, when someone came for her in the middle of the night. That's why I have to find out who did this to her. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

15 " Tina is one of those women who thinks every bit of estrogen in the boardroom is a threat to her own existence. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

16 " Its size, along with the perfection of its paintwork, gave it a curiously toylike quality, and as I stepped onto the narrow steel gangway I had a sudden disorienting image of the Aurora as a ship imprisoned in a bottle – tiny, perfect, isolated, and unreal – and of myself, shrinking down to match it with every step I took towards the boat. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

17 " Apparently the majority of ball gowns were designed by five-year-old girls armed with glitter guns, but at least this one didn’t look entirely like an explosion in a Barbie factory. I "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

18 " Yes. Yes, I take antidepressants. So what? No "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

19 " she had made her way up the corporate ladder by treading on the backs of more young women than you could count, and then, once she was through the glass ceiling, pulling the ladder up behind her. I remembered Rowan once saying, Tina is one of those women who thinks every bit of estrogen in the boardroom is a threat to her own existence. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10

20 " What was going to happen to me? There were only two possibilities—they were going to let me go at some point. Or they were going to kill me. "

― Ruth Ware , The Woman in Cabin 10