02UndatedI'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 / quote ↗
04UndatedI 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.Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
06UndatedI am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
07UndatedThe dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
10UndatedThey 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 themRosie Thomas / quote ↗
12UndatedLearning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
13UndatedLike so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter. Sometimes you lose your grip on one of them and it falls and smashes to piece, and you shrug and say to yourself, what a pity. Then you reach for the cup that you use every day, one that you love and use so often that as you stretch out your hand it is already making the shape that fits its curve. You are certain that yesterday it was in its proper place, but now there is nothing. Just air. You have lost something that was so familiar, so much a part of your life that you were not even looking for it. Just expecting it to be there, as always.Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
18UndatedLet her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
20UndatedSome things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
22UndatedAnything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
23UndatedWhen you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibilityRosie Thomas / quote ↗
24UndatedThe richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.Rosie Thomas / quote ↗
