Quotes from Rosie Thomas

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

Things don't matter, people do

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

I need them and they need me to need them

I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals.

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

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

I can only strive for what is important

I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

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

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

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

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

Got to go on, haven't we? Life goes on.

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

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.

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.

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

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

Death preserves an ideal.

She had an English boyfriend who called her more often than she needed to hear from him, a savings account, a mobile phone, an Oyster Card, and a place to live that made her feel as if she was in a movie. She was a London girl.

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

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