Ruth Rendell Quotes

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

With his back to us, Sean tugs the halter from the mare's head. She kicks out, but he steps out of the way as if it were nothing at all. With a shake of her mane, she leaps mightily into the water. For a moment she struggles over the waves, and then she is swimming. Just a wild black horse in a deep blue sea full of the ashes of other dead boys.

As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit.

At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle.

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

Leaving feels too good, once you leave.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Since you've been gone, I can breath for the first time.

Ty it well, and let it goe.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.