“ 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. Rosie Thomas
“ The richness of the whole world reduced to a choice that was not a choice at all, but a sentence. Rosie Thomas
“ When you're young, everything carries a twin charge of novelty and infinite possibility Rosie Thomas
“ Like so many plain cups on the shelves. You can reach for them, use them without thinking. Most of them don't matter. Sometimes you lose your grip on one of them and it falls and smashes to piece, and… Rosie Thomas
“ Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family. Rosie 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 Rosie Thomas
