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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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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Film Actor
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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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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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We make patterns, we share moments.
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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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I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.
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a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
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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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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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Her skin tasted expensive.
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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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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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Are you afraid, Tessa?
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I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.
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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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