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Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.
Jenny Downham
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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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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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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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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'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.
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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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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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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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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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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.
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We make patterns, we share moments.
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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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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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