“The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.” — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“It’s only a house, she thought. But it was more, too. It was Tibby’s elaborate, respectable shrine to a family life that… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“It's the fragment of your past that explains why you have lived your life the way you have done and made the… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family. — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it.… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Like so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter.… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share
“Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.” — Rosie Thomas Copy Share
“It's the fragment of your past that explains why you have lived your life the way you have done and made the mistakes that… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more,… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share
“Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.” — Rosie Thomas Copy Share
“When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility” — Rosie Thomas Copy Share
“Like so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter. Sometimes you… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share
