Rosie Thomas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Christmas #Together #Glue
I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Moving On #Memories #Path
Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
-- Rosie Thomas

#Trying #Bears #Capture
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Loss #Looks #Folly
I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Fear #Doe #Far Away
Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Understanding #Littles #Bears
I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Losing
The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Together #Company
Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Mind #Terrible #Seems
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Alive #Harm
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
-- Rosie Thomas

#Children #Way #Clear
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – 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.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Fear #Selfish #Rocks
Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Memories #Reality
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.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Running #Grief #Cutting
Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.
-- Rosie Thomas

#Important #Way
I need them and they need me to need them
-- Rosie Thomas

#Needs
Things don't matter, people do
-- Rosie Thomas

#People #Matter #Friends Forever
Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?
-- Rosie Thomas

#Never Forget #Forget #Left
I can only strive for what is important
-- Rosie Thomas

#Important #Strive #I Can

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