All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“a glimpse of light reflected in his eyes. Stars shining there perhaps. Or the moon.” — Jenny Downham Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I used to believe that Dad could do anything, save me from anything. But he can’t, he’s just a man.” — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
“As Zoey turns to face me, I realize that life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey… — Jenny Downham Journey Copy Share Image
“Why do I feel like you're not on my side anymore? Please don't give up on me.” — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth. — Jenny Downham Death 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
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 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 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 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'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 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
“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
“I want a big dark room you can barely move in, with bodies grinding close together. I want to hear a thousand… — Jenny Downham Dark room Copy Share Image
“Afterwards, go to a pub for lunch. I've got $260 in my savings account and I really want you to use it… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
There's a gang of boys on bikes blocking the road ahead. They've got their hoods up, cigarettes shielded. The sky's a really… — Jenny Downham 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 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
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
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
Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die. — Jenny Downham Before i die 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
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
Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much. — Jenny Downham Heartbeat 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write. — Jenny Downham Architecture Copy Share Image
I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop. — Jenny Downham Flying Copy Share Image
“I want a magician with a cloak and wand, or a knight with a sword, someone fearless.” — Jenny Downham Magic 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
