Jenny Downham Quotes

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• It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
• Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
• Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
• 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,…
• As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young…
• If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life…
• I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that.
• It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!
• Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in…
• I don't think words reach people. Maybe nothing does
• I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out…
• I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.
• I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that I don't like…
• There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere…
• 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…
• I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
• 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, but she could…
• The shops in High Street still have their metal grilles down, blank-eyed and sleeping. My name is scrawled across them all. I'm outside Ajay's newsagent's.…
• And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.
• And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps…

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