Ruth Dugdall Quotes & Sayings

No matter how much the therapists over the eighteen months have told me that talking will help, I don't believe them. — Ruth Dugdall

...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely odds, we still worry about being raped or murdered. We hear a sound in the night and think of burglars, not mice... It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door. — Ruth Dugdall

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. — Ruth Dugdall

gazing abstractly out on the Ipswich skyline, listening to the beep of the machine. We watched nurses press buttons, shine a torch into Jena's eyes and clip her finger with a gadget to measure her pulse. Minutes ticked by with no change. — Ruth Dugdall

passed two wristbands under — Ruth Dugdall