"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."

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Source : Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

Jenny Downham

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“As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.”
“Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.”
“Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.”
“I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.”
“Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.”

Source : "How Sherri Shepherd Responds To Critics Who Said ‘You Can’t’ And ‘You’re Too Fat’". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2015.
“When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.”

Source : Wangari Maathai (2004). “The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience”, p.12, Lantern Books
“His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.”
“Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.”

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