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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
Jenny Downham
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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Inner and Outer London
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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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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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Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.
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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.
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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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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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She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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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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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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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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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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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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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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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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Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered. 'No.' 'How do you know?' 'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.' 'Serious?' 'Serious. That isn't a line.' 'Kiss me,' she said. He did. Everywhere.
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Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.
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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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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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