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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Film Actor
Novelist
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Inner and Outer London
Gathering
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Moments

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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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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.
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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.
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Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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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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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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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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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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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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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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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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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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