“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 Afraid of death Copy Share Image
“Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.” — Rosie Thomas Bears 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 Failure Copy Share Image
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood… — Rosie Thomas Chairs Copy Share Image
“Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.” — Rosie Thomas Death Copy Share Image
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it? — Rosie Thomas Children Copy Share Image
“The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want.” — Rosie Thomas Future Copy Share Image
“When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility” — Rosie Thomas Youth 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 Every day Copy Share Image
“The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.” — Rosie Thomas Choice Copy Share Image
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more,… — Rosie Thomas Chairs 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 Death Copy Share Image
Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left? — Rosie Thomas Forget Copy Share Image
Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality. — Rosie Thomas Memories 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 Cry Copy Share Image
“Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.” — Rosie Thomas Love Copy Share Image
