I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all.

And it tastes like metal between you teeth.

Jenny Downham

Mots clés the-taste-of-death



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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.

Jenny Downham


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Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.

Jenny Downham

Mots clés you-against-me



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Nurses never tell you what they know. They’re hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.

Jenny Downham

Mots clés before-i-fall tess



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

Jenny Downham

Mots clés before-i-die



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

Jenny Downham


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Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered.
'No.'
'How do you know?'
'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.'
'Serious?'
'Serious. That isn't a line.'
'Kiss me,' she said.
He did. Everywhere.

Jenny Downham

Mots clés love ellie mikey



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When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.

Jenny Downham


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The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

Jenny Downham


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I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what's there.

Jenny Downham

Mots clés love



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