Rosie Thomas Quotes
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The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.
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Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.
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Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
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I need them and they need me to need them
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Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.
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After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – 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.
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I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.
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Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
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Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.
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Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.
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Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?
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I can only strive for what is important
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The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
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Things don't matter, people do
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I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.
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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.
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I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
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Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
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Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.
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