Quote

I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.

Jenny Downham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Boys
Hangers
Wish
Coat
Film
Wardrobe
Beautiful
Coats
Wanted
Boyfriend
Look
Whenever
Looks
Films
Way
Lived
Hanger

More quotes by Jenny Downham

Image
Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
Jenny Downham
Image
You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
Jenny Downham
Image
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
Image
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.
Jenny Downham
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
Jenny Downham
Image
Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
Jenny Downham
Image
I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
Jenny Downham
Image
Moments. All gathering towards this one.
Jenny Downham
Image
Hold my hand. Don't let go.
Jenny Downham
Image
It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
Jenny Downham
Image
I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.
Jenny Downham
Image
I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
Jenny Downham
Image
Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
Jenny Downham
Image
. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
Jenny Downham
Image
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.
Jenny Downham
Image
No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
Jenny Downham
Image
Are you afraid, Tessa?
Jenny Downham
Image
I said I wouldn't leave her.
Jenny Downham