Rosie Thomas Quotes & Sayings

#1. Got to go on, haven't we? Life goes on.

#2. As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much

#3. She had an English boyfriend who called her more often than she needed to hear from him, a savings account, a mobile phone, an Oyster Card, and a place to live that made her feel as if she was in a movie. She was a London girl.

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#4. patient compromises? 'I was afraid. I was

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#5. I can only strive for what is important

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#6. They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them

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#7. The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

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#8. The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for ever.

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#9. Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

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#10. Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.

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#11. Death preserves an ideal.

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#12. Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

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#13. Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

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#14. When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility

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#15. I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

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#16. The future offers everything. Reach out and take whatever you want.

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#17. 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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#18. The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

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#19. Love. The wide sea that one word conjures up, all the currents and tides and storms and oily swells of it.

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#20. Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

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#21. Things don't matter, people do

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#22. 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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#23. I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

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#24. Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?

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#25. How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.

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