Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“Sex," I ask her. "What does it mean?" "Poor you," She say's. "You really did get a crap shag, didn't you?” — Jenny Downham Shag Copy Share Image
“Was this love? Because it hurt. It felt like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important - his heart or his head.… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means. — Jenny Downham Choices Copy Share Image
Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die. — Jenny Downham Before i die Copy Share Image
If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
I'm here, Tess. I'm right here, holding your hand. Adam's here, too, he's sitting on the other side of the bed. And… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
I like you," he said. He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“Hey, listen,' I say. " Fascinating as this is, we've got to go now. I have to collect the invites for my… — Jenny Downham Funeral Copy Share Image
As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take… — Jenny Downham Access Copy Share Image
a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and… — Jenny Downham Bird Copy Share Image
The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same.… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“I sit up in bed and watch her fiddle about in the back of my wardrobe. I think she's got a plan.… — Jenny Downham Before i die Copy Share Image
“He falls asleep quickly. I lie awake and listen to lights being switched off all over the town. Whispered goodnights. The drowsy… — Jenny Downham Before i die Copy Share Image
“We said we'd be friends.' He looks confused. 'Yeah.' I don't want to be.' There's space between us, and in that space… — Jenny Downham Darkness Copy Share Image
“this mad psycho tells everyone to get into a field and says I’m going to pick one of you just one of… — Jenny Downham Madness Copy Share Image
Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant,… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be dead. I haven't been loved this way for long enough.” — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“No le digas a tu hija que este planeta se está yendo a la mierda.” — Jenny Downham Amor Copy Share Image
“I've been told there are five stages of grief, and if that's true, then he's stuck in stage one; denial.” — Jenny Downham Denial Copy Share Image
