Quotes from Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby

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

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

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

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

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

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.

Death preserves an ideal.

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

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

I need them and they need me to need them