Rosie Thomas Quotes

• Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

  Rosie Thomas

  Christmas, Together, Glue

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.216, The Overlook Press

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

  Rosie Thomas

  Moving On, Memories, Path

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.182, The Overlook Press

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• Try to capture what you can't bear to be without

  Rosie Thomas

  Trying, Bears, Capture

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.29, The Overlook Press

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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.

  Rosie Thomas

  Running, Grief, Cutting

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press

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

  Rosie Thomas

  Loss, Looks, Folly

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press

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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.

  Rosie Thomas

  Fear, Doe, Far Away

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

  Rosie Thomas

  Understanding, Littles, Bears

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.212, The Overlook Press

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• I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

  Rosie Thomas

  Losing

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• The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

  Rosie Thomas

  Together, Company

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press

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

  Rosie Thomas

  Mind, Terrible, Seems

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.114, The Overlook Press

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• The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

  Rosie Thomas

  Alive, Harm

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press

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• Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?

  Rosie Thomas

  Children, Way, Clear

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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.

  Rosie Thomas

  Fear, Selfish, Rocks

  "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".

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• Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

  Rosie Thomas

  Memories, Reality

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.169, The Overlook Press

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

  Rosie Thomas

  Important, Way

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.102, The Overlook Press

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• I need them and they need me to need them

  Rosie Thomas

  Needs

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.66, The Overlook Press

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• Things don't matter, people do

  Rosie Thomas

  People, Matter, Friends Forever

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.27, The Overlook Press

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

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  Never Forget, Forget, Left

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.7, The Overlook Press

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• I can only strive for what is important

  Rosie Thomas

  Important, Strive, I Can

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.65, The Overlook Press

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