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