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I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.

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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
Unimportant
Equally
Different

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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.
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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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We make patterns, we share moments.
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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 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 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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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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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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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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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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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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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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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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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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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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