120 Quotes by Jenny Downham

Risk your heart it makes things happen. You see if I am right.

No, really. I free you.? I don’t want to be free.

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.

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.

I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn’t with me, I think I made him up.

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.

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

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

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.