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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Inner and Outer London
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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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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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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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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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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.
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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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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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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.
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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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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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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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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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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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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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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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If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.
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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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