Ruth Jones > Quotes

“Thing is, it’s the people in our lives who make us who we are, don’t you think?”
― Ruth Jones, Us Three

“Grace squeezed a fresh cold flannel in the bowl, and gently wiped Cissie’s forehead. Only small acts of care were left to her now, as Cissie’s world diminished by the second.”
― Ruth Jones, Love Untold

“Thing about getting older, cariad, is you’ve just got to accept it face on. As R. S. Thomas says, we are all “in servitude to time”. No point thinking about what’s gone, or what’s coming over the hill at us. It’s where we’re at right now that counts.”
― Ruth Jones, Love Untold

“To be forgiven pains me more than when You did forsake and loathe my lonely soul.”
― Ruth Jones, Love Untold

“Don’t give in, Belinda! Don’t do it to yourself!’ But none of her girlfriends would ever know their relationship like she did. Or know how much more painful it would be to live without him, or how much misery she’d inflict on”
― Ruth Jones, Never Greener

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional’ –”
― Ruth Jones, Never Greener

“up”
― Ruth Jones, Never Greener

“Kate longed to be normal. To never have to overthink or listen to the running commentary whirring in her head, telling her she was never good enough or real enough, calling her useless and ugly and fat.”
― Ruth Jones, Never Greener

“A flimsy, cheap sliver of paper. Insignificant, yet bearing so much.”
― Ruth Jones, Us Three

“… let’s celebrate what we have got, is it? Not mourn what we haven’t.”
― Ruth Jones, Us Three

“businesswoman’s face turned to delighted recognition when she realized that she was staring at the Kate Andrews! Unable to withstand the awkwardness, Kate picked up her bag and headed towards the smoking carriage. She stood in the vestibule at the far end of the train and lit up, the window open slightly for her to blow out the smoke. She thought about earlier that morning at”
― Ruth Jones, Never Greener

“it was the fear of losing others that plagued her most, fear of losing those who’d trodden life’s path with her for longer than she could remember.”
― Ruth Jones, Love Untold

“Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.”
― Ruth Jones, Us Three

“to have her lost friend back in her life.”
― Ruth Jones, Us Three

“here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)”
― Ruth Jones, Us Three