Jenny Downham Quotes - Page 2

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• There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shielded. The sky's a really strange colour and there's hardly anyone else about. I slow right down. "What shall I do?" "Reverse," Zoey says. "They're not going to move." I wind down the window. "Oi!" I yell "Move your arses!" They turn languid, shift lazily to the edge of the road and grin as I blow kisses at them. Zoey looks stunned, "What's got into you?" "Nothing- I just haven't learned reversing yet.

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  Block, Moving, Kissing

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

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• Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?

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  Girl, Firsts, Week

  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.

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  I Don't Need You, Needs, Care

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

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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.

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  People, Want, Honest

  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.

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  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!

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  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

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  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.

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  Bye, Mind, Tess

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

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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.

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  Stupid, Hair, Swings

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• The light is heart-breaking.

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  Heart, Light, Heart Breaking

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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.

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  Children, Black, Tin

  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.

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  Horse, Flying, Imagine

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

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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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• 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.

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  Autumn, Three, Coffins

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• . . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

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  Bones

  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.

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  Thinking, Patterns, Sometimes

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

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• I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

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  Lonely, Home, Funeral

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

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• Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.

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  Hurt, Heart, Glasses

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• Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered. 'No.' 'How do you know?' 'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.' 'Serious?' 'Serious. That isn't a line.' 'Kiss me,' she said. He did. Everywhere.

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  Kissing, Lines, Kiss Me

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• Her skin tasted expensive.

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  Skins, Expensive

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• Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.

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  Life, Missing Someone, Believe

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• When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.

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  Funny Things, Want, Stuff

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.337, Random House

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• I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.

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  Baby, Pulse, Teeth

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.182, Random House

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• The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

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  Taken, Pieces, Way

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• Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.

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  Goodbye, Good Luck, Bird

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

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