120 Quotes by Jenny Downham

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.

You want some sweet and lovely things, Tessa, but be careful. Other people can't always give you what you want.

Spring is a powerful spell.The blue. The clouds high up and puffy. The air warmer than it's been for weeks.

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.

Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.

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.

Number two on my list is simple. I must say yes to everything for one whole day. Whatever it is and whoever asks it of me.

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.

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.