120 Quotes by Jenny Downham

I’ve always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don’t.

I’m me and you’re you, and all of them out there are them. And we’re all so different and equally unimportant.

Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.

I don’t want to go into a fridge at an undertaker’s. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy.

I’m going because my life was crap until I met you. I’m going because I don’t want to be here when you’re not, still living with my mum and nothing being any different. I wouldn’t even be thinking about going if it hadn’t been for you.

Perhaps I’m dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I’ll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.

Don’t pretend to care. I don’t need you as an anesthetic.

We make patterns, we share moments. Sometimes, I think I’m the only one to see it.