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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.

Jenny Downham

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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
Wild
Warm
Wanted
Always
Life
Domesticated
Cat

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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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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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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.
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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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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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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!
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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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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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I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.
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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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Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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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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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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