120 Quotes by Jenny Downham

I don’t think words reach people. Maybe nothing does.

Parents don’t know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

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.

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.

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.

I said I wouldn’t leave her.

Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.

It’s utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.

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.