Top 100 Quotes About Downham
#1. Simona: Truth doesn't exist?
Katie: ...because everyone's got their own side of a story
...If there's no real truth, then all we can do is offer up our own stories and listen to other people's and try and make sense of it all
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#2. 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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#3. 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 becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.
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#4. Instructions for Adam
Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh. Eat pot-noodles for breakfast. Miss lectures. Be irresponsible.
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#5. Like a stone falling in a pond, circles and circles of love ripple through me.
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#6. I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
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#7. If she planted a seed, she'd have to dig it back up and look at it every day to see if it was growing yet.
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#8. And in the space he left behind, in the loss of him, she felt an actual physical pain in her belly. She'd lost a friend and she didn't have many of those.
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#9. Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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#10. . . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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#11. I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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#12. Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have turned to liquid and their fingers glint under the weak autumn sun.
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#13. Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.
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#15. I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
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#17. Was this love? Because it hurt. It felt like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important - his heart or his head. And it was throbbing.
Novel You Against Me
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#18. You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.
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#19. Should we say something?' Cal asks.
'Goodbye, bird?' I suggest.
He nods. 'Goodbye, bird. Thank you for coming. And good luck.
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#20. I used to believe that Dad could do anything, save me from anything. But he can't, he's just a man.
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#22. 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, to give the patients something to aim for.
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#23. When he thought about her, he remembered her at the cottage, her eyes fiery, daring to love him. But standing here in front of him , she looked defeated and sad.
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#24. And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.
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#25. Alchemy, Dex called it, which was something to do with magic if you were French.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#29. She breathed her mantra - fire, earth, water, air - and told herself that the elements were older and stronger than any human and that these girls were insignificant, and one day they'd all be dust.
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#30. Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.
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#31. When he isn't with me, I think ive made him up.
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#32. No, really. I free you.'
I don't want to be free.
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#33. Then she says, 'I love you.' Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.
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#34. Why do I feel like you're not on my side anymore? Please don't give up on me.
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#36. 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.
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#37. I don't think words reach people. Maybe nothing does
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#38. 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!
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#39. A glimpse of light reflected in his eyes. Stars shining there perhaps. Or the moon.
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#40. Day after day it was as if someone had taken my life apart and polished every bit of it really carefully before putting it all back together.
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#41. 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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#42. Adam will climb over the fence to steal me, maddened by my scent, by my roundness, the shine and health of me.
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#43. 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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#44. Humans are made from nuclear ash of dead stars
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#45. 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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#46. Spring is a powerful spell.
The blue. The clouds high up and puffy. The air warmer than it's been for weeks.
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#47. Parents don't know their children at all.
No one knows anyone, in fact.
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#48. Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.
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#49. 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 all.
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#50. Cal says, Do you want to see my Megazord? You'll have to come to my room because it's defending a city and if I move it, everyone will die.
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#51. It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.
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#52. If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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#53. I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.
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#54. I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
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#56. She shrugs, goes over to the window and looks down at the garden. She circles a finger on the glass, then she says, "Maybe you should try an believe in God."
"Should I?"
"Yeah, maybe we all should. The entire human race.
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#57. 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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#58. Hey, listen,' I say. " Fascinating as this is, we've got to go now. I have to collect the invites for my funeral."
That shuts them up. Fiona looks astonished." Really?
" Yeah." I grab Zoey's arm. "It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!
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#59. Katie had a grandmother who was a man-eater and a father who was a lothario. What chance did she have of being decent and honest and kind? She'd kissed two girls and one boy in the space of a few weeks, so these things were clearly genetic.
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#60. She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.
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#61. 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 not, still living with my mum and nothing being any different. I wouldn't even be thinking about going if it hadn't been for you.
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#62. What happens if anger takes you over, Tessa? Who will you be then? What will be left of you?
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#64. She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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#65. Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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#66. I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.
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#67. 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 people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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#68. We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I'm the only one to see it.
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#69. Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.
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#70. 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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#72. Humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that when I die, I'll return to dust, glitter, rain.
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#73. 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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#74. My thoughts are so clear that I wouldn't be surprised if he could see them blazing above my head like a neon sign outside a fish and chip shop. I fancy you.
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#75. I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.
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#76. I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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#77. 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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#78. Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her die.
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#79. It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.
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#80. When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.
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#81. I wish it was possible to smear cancer cells onto his arse.
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#82. I've been told there are five stages of grief, and if that's true, then he's stuck in stage one; denial.
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#84. You want some sweet and lovely things, Tessa, but be careful. Other people can't always give you what you want.
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#85. I don't want to be dead. I haven't been loved this way for long enough.
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#86. Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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#87. The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.
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#88. I'd like to go home now,' she said softly. She hoped someone would show her the way.
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#89. 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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#90. I want a magician with a cloak and wand, or a knight with a sword, someone fearless.
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#91. He says, 'Anything could be happening down there, but up here you just wouldn't know it.'
I know what he means. It could be pandemonium in all those little houses, everyone's dreams in a mess. But up here feels peaceful. Clean.
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#92. 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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#93. 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 her way, she'll be just a minute. We all love you, Tessa. We're all right here with you.
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#94. 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 has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
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#95. 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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#96. I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.
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#97. It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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#98. 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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#99. She wishes she was old. She'd swap her life to be in a life that was nearly over, so long as she didn't have to be here.
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#100. If I could buck, I would. If I could howl at the moon, then I would. To feel this, when I'd thought it was
over, when my body's closing down and I thought I'd have no pleasure from it again.
I am blessed.
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