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• I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.

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

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• I want to die in my own way. It’s my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

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• I don’t want to be dead. I haven’t been loved this way for long enough.

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

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

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• Funny how when life was that simple, you never really realized how lucky you were.

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

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• Humans are made from nuclear ash of dead stars.

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• Hold my hand. Don’t let go.

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

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

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Jenny Downham (12)

Birth:	1964
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jenny Downham was born in London, England. She is a British novelist and an ex-actress. She has written several novels include:  Before I Die (short listed for the 2007 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the 2008 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year, nominated for the 2008 Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize, and won the 2008 Branford Boase Award), You Against Me, and Unbecoming. In 1998, she played Anna, the Ralph's Wife in Basil. She lives in London with her two sons.

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