Rosie Thomas Quotes
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.
Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?
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.
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
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.
When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility
The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.
How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.
