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- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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 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…
- when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the…
- a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain…
- Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across…
- She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
- Every few years we disappear, Zoey. All our cells are replaced by others. Not a single bit of me is the same as when I…
- 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 Cal. Mum's on…
- Moments. All gathering towards this one.
- All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together…
- But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My…
- I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
- It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die,…
- How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending.…
- I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room,…
- She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few…
- Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
- I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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