-
By AnonymRosie Thomas
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.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
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.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
Things don't matter, people do
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
Death preserves an ideal.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
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.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
I can only strive for what is important
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
I need them and they need me to need them
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
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.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
The harsh world unjustly reserved its most severe punishments for women.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
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
00 -
By AnonymRosie Thomas
When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility
00