"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."

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Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press

Rosie Thomas

#Running Quotes #Grief Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“I'd always been interested in psychology.”
“I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, it's because we haven't been able to understand it yet.”
“I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.”
“Never date a woman you can hear ticking.”
“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.”
“The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.”
“It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.”
“Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.”

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