“In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!”

“I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.”

“Ian Sterling has ruined me. And he's ruined me for anyone else.”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.”

“My father hadn’t ruined me. It was impossible to ruin a person who had never been formed correctly to begin with, but I had ruined a few people of my own over the past several months.”

“You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success.”

“I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.”