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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
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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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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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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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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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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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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven 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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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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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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Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, God, it's cold. Question: What's the probability they will kiss?
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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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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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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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