Quotes by Jenny Downham

About Jenny Downham:

Jenny Downham is a British novelist and an ex-actress. She has published two books, Before I Die, the fictional account of the last few months of a sixteen-year-old girl who has been dying of leukeamia for four years. The book is told in the first person.
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Yo soy yo y tú eres tú, todos los de allá fuera son ellos. Y todos somos diferentes e igualmente insignificantes.

Jenny Downham

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, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission.

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It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never dr...

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Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.

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Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.

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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 lips will turn to glue. ...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.

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I don't give a shit, Dad!" "Well I do! I absolutely give a shit! This will completely exhaust you." "It's my body. I can do what I like!" "So you don't care about your body now?" "No, I'm sick of it! I'm sick of doctors and needles and blood tests an...

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It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

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I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

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We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.

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I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.

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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 and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.

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I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.

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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 you ever say it again!

Jenny Downham

Moments. All gathering towards this one.

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We make patterns, we share moments.

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I sit up in bed and watch her fiddle about in the back of my wardrobe. I think she's got a plan. That's what's good about Zoey. She'd better hurry up though, because I'm starting to think of things like carrots. And air. And ducks. And pear trees. Ve...

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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

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Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold." Question: What's the probability they will kiss?

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Do you want this to be a love story?

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Author Bio

  • NameJenny Downham
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • Born1964
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAuthor