Jenny Downham Quotes - Page 2

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• It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!

  Jenny Downham

  Party, Thinking, Hymns

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she’d tell him everything.

  Jenny Downham

  Stars, Believe, Hands

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• I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

  Jenny Downham

  People, Want, Honest

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.

  Jenny Downham

  I Don't Need You, Needs, Care

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I'm here, Tess. I'm right here, holding your hand. Adam's here, too, he's sitting on the other side of the bed. And Cal. Mum's on her way, she'll be just a minute. We all love you, Tessa. We're all right here with you.

  Jenny Downham

  Love You, Hands, Bed

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!

  Jenny Downham

  Hurt, Love You, Dare

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.261, Random House

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• a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead

  Jenny Downham

  Moving, Years, Long

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

  Jenny Downham

  Bye, Mind, Tess

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.

  Jenny Downham

  Thinking, Patterns, Sometimes

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life

  Jenny Downham

  Holiday, Car, Dying

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.

  Jenny Downham

  Cancer, Lying, Kids

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.

  Jenny Downham

  Doors, Years, White

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• The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

  Jenny Downham

  Kings, Sleep, Circles

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• I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that I don't like her at all. 'You know what?' I say. 'Forget it. I'll do the list by myself.' She stands up, swings her stupid hair about and tries to look offended. It's a trick that works with guys, but it makes no difference to the way I feel about her.

  Jenny Downham

  Stupid, Hair, Swings

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• Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.

  Jenny Downham

  Fall, Love You, Blood

  Jenny Downham (2008). “Before I Die”, p.311, Random House

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• Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.

  Jenny Downham

  Thinking, Tree, Losing

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Hold my hand. Don't let go.

  Jenny Downham

  Letting Go, Hands, Don't Let Go

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.

  Jenny Downham

  Autumn, Three, Coffins

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• Are you afraid, Tessa?

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  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Moments. All gathering towards this one.

  Jenny Downham

  Gathering, Moments

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.

  Jenny Downham

  Horse, Flying, Imagine

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

  Jenny Downham

  Children, Black, Tin

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.

  Jenny Downham

  Breathing, Breathe, Easy

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• The light is heart-breaking.

  Jenny Downham

  Heart, Light, Heart Breaking

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• No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.

  Jenny Downham

  Want

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