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Jenny Downham Inspirational Quotes (54)

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And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.
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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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Every few years we disappear, Zoey. All our cells are replaced by others. Not a single bit of me is the same as when I was last in this room.
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.
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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away? There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.
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I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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We make patterns, we share moments.
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
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She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.
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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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I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
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I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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