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Hold my hand. Don't let go.

Jenny Downham

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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Film Actor
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Inner and Outer London
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Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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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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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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Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.
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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
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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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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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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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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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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 want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
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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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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 miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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