Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end. — Jenny Downham Ends Copy Share Image
You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy. — Jenny Downham Changed Copy Share Image
Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact. — Jenny Downham Children Copy Share Image
“I want to live before I die. It’s the only thing that makes sense.” — Jenny Downham Advice-for-daily-living 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 And love 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 Lasts Copy Share Image
I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very… — Jenny Downham Broken 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 Grief Copy Share Image
“She wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she… — Jenny Downham Heart Copy Share Image
I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I… — Jenny Downham Dark Copy Share Image
I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I… — Jenny Downham Cry 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
“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
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 Disappear 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 Being true Copy Share Image
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… — Jenny Downham Adam 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 Adam Copy Share Image
She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in… — Jenny Downham Boys Copy Share Image
The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm… — Jenny Downham Barbecue Copy Share Image
“Tell me how would be.. You don't want to eat much from now on, you'll be thirst. And.. sometimes have fever. You… — 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
“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 Looking Around 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
“Instructions for Dad. I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home… — Jenny Downham Before i die Copy Share Image
Cal says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to… — Jenny Downham Apples Copy Share Image
