Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Jenny Downham
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Like
Stuck
Somewhere
Bits
Head
Hurt
Important
Throbbing
Heart
Glass
Love
Glasses
More quotes by Jenny Downham
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.
Jenny Downham
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?
Jenny Downham
Her skin tasted expensive.
Jenny Downham
It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!
Jenny Downham
Hold my hand. Don't let go.
Jenny Downham
I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
Jenny Downham
Every few years we disappear, Zoey. All our cells are replaced by others. Not a single bit of me is the same as when I was last in this room.
Jenny Downham
When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.
Jenny Downham
Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
Jenny Downham
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.
Jenny Downham
She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
Jenny Downham
Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
Jenny Downham
Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
Jenny Downham
You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
Jenny Downham
I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
Jenny Downham
Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
Jenny Downham
Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
Jenny Downham
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.
Jenny Downham
She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
Jenny Downham
. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
Jenny Downham
