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Famous Jenny Downham Quotes
“Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.”
“Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.”
“I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.”
“Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.”
“Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.”
“Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.”
“Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.”
“If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.”
“I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.”
“She needed food. Diets didn't count in a crisis.”
“You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.”
“Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.”
“It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.”
“Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.”
“Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.”