Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow. — Jenny Downham Blood Copy Share Image
Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much. — Jenny Downham Heartbeat Copy Share Image
That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed. — Jenny Downham Before i die 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
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
It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns! — Jenny Downham Hymns 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'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
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 wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could… — Jenny Downham Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Sklupčam se u podnožju stubišta. To je mjesto gdje mačka sjedi kad hoće da se ljudi spotaknu preko nje. Uvijek sam htjela… — Jenny Downham Toga Copy Share Image
“My thoughts are so clear that I wouldn't be surprised if he could see them blazing above my head like a neon… — Jenny Downham Neon sign Copy Share Image
“I'm going because my life was crap until I met you. I'm going because I don't want to be here when you're… — Jenny Downham Going Copy Share Image
Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered. 'No.' 'How do you know?' 'I just do. I've never felt this with… — Jenny Downham Kiss Copy Share Image
Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop.… — Jenny Downham Autumn Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral.… — Jenny Downham Cases Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And… — Jenny Downham Continue 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
“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 Morphine 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
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 Bone marrow 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 Afraid Copy Share Image
And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged… — Jenny Downham Bed Copy Share Image
I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that… — Jenny Downham Clear Copy Share Image
It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it. — Jenny Downham Broken Copy Share Image
Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking. — Jenny Downham Forget 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 don't want to be dead. I haven't been loved this way for long enough.” — Jenny Downham Dying 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
