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

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

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

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

Things don't matter, people do.

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

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

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….

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

After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once mor….

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

I can only strive for what is important.

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

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

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

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 do not harm us, only the alive..

I need them and they need me to need them.

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