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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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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
Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
Jenny Downham
We make patterns, we share moments.
Jenny Downham
You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
Jenny Downham
Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
Jenny Downham
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
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.
Jenny Downham
She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
Jenny Downham
Are you afraid, Tessa?
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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.
Jenny Downham
Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
Jenny Downham
I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
Jenny Downham
Her skin tasted expensive.
Jenny Downham
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.
Jenny Downham
Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
Jenny Downham
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
. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
Jenny Downham
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.
Jenny Downham
I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.
Jenny Downham
I said I wouldn't leave her.
Jenny Downham