Rosie Thomas quotes:

Things don't matter, people do

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

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.

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

Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I need them and they need me to need them

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

Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

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

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

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

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