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It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.
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Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.
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Then she says, 'I love you.' Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.
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I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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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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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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Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.
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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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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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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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All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.
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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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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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Maybe I'll come back as somebody else. I'll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. 'Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?
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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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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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Jenny Downham
Born:
1964
(age 60)
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