120 Quotes by Jenny Downham

She’d never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn’t know, and yet in the last few days, she’d done all these things.

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

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don’t mind.

It’s a shame i can’t be there myself – i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling – it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.

Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I’d take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion because I wanted to know. For hours you sat in hospitals and never, not once, complained. You brushed my hair like a mother should. You gave up work for me, friends for me, four years of your life for me. You never moaned. Hardly ever. You let me have Adam. You let me have my list. I was outrageous. Wanting, wanting so much. And you never said, ‘That’s enough. Stop now.

If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.

Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It’s called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.