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“Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.216, The Overlook Press
#Christmas Quotes
#Together Quotes
#Glue Quotes
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“I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.182, The Overlook Press
#Moving On Quotes
#Memories Quotes
#Path Quotes
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“Try to capture what you can't bear to be without”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.29, The Overlook Press
#Trying Quotes
#Bears Quotes
#Capture Quotes
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“Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press
#Loss Quotes
#Looks Quotes
#Folly Quotes
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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.”
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Rosie Thomas
#Fear Quotes
#Doe Quotes
#Far Away Quotes
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“Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.”
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Rosie Thomas
#Understanding Quotes
#Littles Quotes
#Bears Quotes
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“I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.”
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Rosie Thomas
#Losing Quotes
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“The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press
#Together Quotes
#Company Quotes
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“Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.114, The Overlook Press
#Mind Quotes
#Terrible Quotes
#Seems Quotes
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“The dead do not harm us, only the alive.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press
#Alive Quotes
#Harm Quotes
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“Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?”
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Rosie Thomas
#Children Quotes
#Way Quotes
#Clear Quotes
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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.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".
#Fear Quotes
#Selfish Quotes
#Rocks Quotes
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“Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.169, The Overlook Press
#Memories Quotes
#Reality Quotes
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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.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press
#Running Quotes
#Grief Quotes
#Cutting Quotes
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“Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.102, The Overlook Press
#Important Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“I need them and they need me to need them”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.66, The Overlook Press
#Needs Quotes
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“Things don't matter, people do”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.27, The Overlook Press
#People Quotes
#Matter Quotes
#Friends Forever Quotes
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“Some things I can never forget. I must not. Otherwise what do I have left?”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.7, The Overlook Press
#Never Forget Quotes
#Forget Quotes
#Left Quotes
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“I can only strive for what is important”
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Rosie Thomas
Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.65, The Overlook Press
#Important Quotes
#Strive Quotes
#I Can Quotes
