Jenny Downham quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Jenny Downham has a lot to say. In this list we present the 22 best Jenny Downham quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Jenny Downham quotes
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.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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, Before I Die
Do you want this to be a love story?
— Jenny Downham, You Against Me
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.
— Jenny Downham, You Against Me
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.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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 drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house.It’s really, really true.A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I’m thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.”No.”It might be important.”It might make her die.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
Parents don’t know their children at all.No one knows anyone, in fact.
— Jenny Downham, You Against Me
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.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
It was only one man who had gone, but it felt like forever, something so permanent and unstoppable that it blasted her. If she were a tree, she would drop all her leaves.
— Jenny Downham
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.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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. Velvet and silk. Lakes. I’m going to miss ice. And the sofa. And the lounge. And the way Cal loves magic tricks. And white things- milk, snow, swans.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she’d tell him everything.
— Jenny Downham, You Against Me
What happens if anger takes you over, Tessa? Who will you be then? What will be left of you?
— Jenny Downham
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 and transfusions. I’m sick of being stuck in a bed day after day while the rest of you get on with your lives. I hate it! I hate all of you! Adam’s gone for a university interview, did you know that? He’s going to be here for years doing whatever he likes and I’m going to be under the ground in a couple of weeks!
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
You want some sweet and lovely things, Tessa, but be careful. Other people can’t always give you what you want.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
It comes and goes. People think if you’re sick you become fearless and brave, but you don’t. Most of the time it’s like being stalked by a psycho, like I might get shot any second. But sometimes I forget for hours.”What makes you forget?”People. Doing stuff. When I was with you in the wood, I forgot for a whole afternoon.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
Moments. All gathering towards this one.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
We make patterns, we share moments.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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.
— Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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