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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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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
Actor
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Inner and Outer London
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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 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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Hold my hand. Don't let go.
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I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.
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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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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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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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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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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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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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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.
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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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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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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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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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Her skin tasted expensive.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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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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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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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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