37 Quotes by Rosie Thomas

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

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

Death preserves an ideal.

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

The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence.

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

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

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.