Jenny Downham Quotes - Page 3

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• 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. I'm on the expensive shutters of the health food store. I'm massive on Handie's furniture shop, King's Chicken Joint and the Barbecue Cafe. I thread the pavement outside the bank and all the way to Mothercare. I've possessed the road and am a glistening circle at the roundabout.

  Jenny Downham

  Kings, Sleep, Circles

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• The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

  Jenny Downham

  Taken, Pieces, Way

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• 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, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.

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  Baby, Pulse, Teeth

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.182, Random House

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• Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.

  Jenny Downham

  Hurt, Heart, Glasses

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• Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered. 'No.' 'How do you know?' 'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.' 'Serious?' 'Serious. That isn't a line.' 'Kiss me,' she said. He did. Everywhere.

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  Kissing, Lines, Kiss Me

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• When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.

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  Funny Things, Want, Stuff

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.337, Random House

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• Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.

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  Life, Missing Someone, Believe

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• Her skin tasted expensive.

  Jenny Downham

  Skins, Expensive

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• 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 was last in this room.

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  Cells, Years, Lasts

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• She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.

  Jenny Downham

  Teeth, Taste, Metals

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• 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 the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.

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  Blessed, Fall, Kissing

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• I said I wouldn't leave her.

  Jenny Downham

  Said

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion because I wanted to know. For hours you sat in hospitals and never, not once, complained. You brushed my hair like a mother should. You gave up work for me, friends for me, four years of your life for me. You never moaned. Hardly ever. You let me have Adam. You let me have my list. I was outrageous. Wanting, wanting so much. And you never said, 'That's enough. Stop now.

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  Mother, Dad, Hair

  Jenny Downham (2008). “Before I Die”, p.307, Random House

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• . . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.

  Jenny Downham

  Bones

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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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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  Fall, Eye, Smell

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.141, Random House

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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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  Hurt, Cancer, Bed

  Jenny Downham (2008). “Before I Die”, p.253, Random House

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

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  Goodbye, Important, Might

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.

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  Thinking, Ugly, Faces

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Do you want this to be a love story?

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  Stories, Want, Love Story

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• "I like you," he said. He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important. He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that."

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  I Like You, Believe, Mean

  "You Against Me". Book by Jenny Downham, 1998.

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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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  Girl, Math, Kissing

  Jenny Downham (2010). “You Against Me”, p.327, Random House

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• 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.

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  Broken, Going Away, Sound

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Should we say something?’ Cal asks. ‘Goodbye, bird?’ I suggest. He nods. ‘Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.

  Jenny Downham

  Goodbye, Good Luck, Bird

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

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  Lonely, Home, Funeral

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.

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  Climbing, Wind, Bird

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