More quotes by Jenny Downham, Before I Die

"I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!"
"Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.''No.''It might be important.''It might make her die."
"I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't."
"It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.''Why are you saying that?''She might need permission to die, Cal.''I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission."
"I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful."