Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby Quotes

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?

Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

I need them and they need me to need them

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

I can only strive for what is important

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want.

They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

Death preserves an ideal.

As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much

The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.

When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility

The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.