Rosie Thomas
Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.Collection: Christmas
I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.Collection: Moving On
Try to capture what you can't bear to be withoutCollection: Trying
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.Collection: Running
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.Collection: Loss
I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.Collection: Fear
Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.Collection: Understanding
I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.Collection: Losing
The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.Collection: Together
Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.Collection: Mind
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.Collection: Alive
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?Collection: Children
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.Collection: Fear
Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.Collection: Memories
Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.Collection: Important
I need them and they need me to need themCollection: Needs
Things don't matter, people doCollection: People
Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?Collection: Never Forget
I can only strive for what is importantCollection: Important