S.J. Watson

“This is dying everyday. Over and over.”

— S.J. Watson

I am an adult, but a damaged one.

— S.J. Watson

“To create myself from nothing.”

— S.J. Watson

I will never abandon you. I love you too much.

— S.J. Watson

“I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become.”

— S.J. Watson

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

— S.J. Watson

“Kiss me, Ben," I said. "Properly.”

— S.J. Watson

“Men always say I LOVE YOU as a QUESTION”

— S.J. Watson

Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.

— S.J. Watson

“I couldn't imagine how i would get from here to there. i couldn't imagine living through a whole string of identical days.”

— S.J. Watson

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

— S.J. Watson

I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness…

— S.J. Watson

“We sat opposite each other across a table that swam with spilled coffee, warming our hands on our drinks.”

— S.J. Watson

Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.

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And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.

— S.J. Watson

“Was sind wir denn, wenn nicht eine Ansammlung von Erinnerungen?”

— S.J. Watson

“He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and…

— S.J. Watson

“He put his hand on mine. I fell into him, knowing what he would do, what he must do, and he did.…

— S.J. Watson

Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide…

— S.J. Watson

“I wonder what I would find if I could go back and decipher the layers, if it were possible to delve into…

— S.J. Watson

“No treasure house of recollection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation…

— S.J. Watson

It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight…

— S.J. Watson

“I realize with sudden clarity that we're wearing masks, all of us, all the time. We're presenting a face, a version of…

— S.J. Watson

“There was a letter, tucked among the pictures. It was addressed to Santa Claus and written in blue crayon. The jerky letters…

— S.J. Watson

…I feel like he’s taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any way that…

— S.J. Watson

I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have…

— S.J. Watson

We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We…

— S.J. Watson

I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt…

— S.J. Watson

“La dejé en el suelo, delante de mí. Y empecé a dudar. No sabía qué quería hacer, si abrirla o no. ¿Qué…

— S.J. Watson

“Progress? You call this progress?” I was almost shouting now, anger spilled out of me as if I could no longer contain…

— S.J. Watson

There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.

— S.J. Watson

“Soon I will sleep, and my brain will begin to delete everything. Tomorrow I will go through it all again.”

— S.J. Watson

“She looks so young, so hungry, her eyes full of possibility, of what is in store for her.”

— S.J. Watson

“We are in a restaurant, smilling, leaning in over a half-eaten meal, our faces flushed with love and thr bite of the…

— S.J. Watson

“The hands on the shoulder, then the hug.The mouths that find each other through the tears.”

— S.J. Watson

“It’s perfectly possible to hold two opposing points of view in the mind at once, oscillating between them.”

— S.J. Watson

There are memories I a better off without. Things better lost forever.

— S.J. Watson

"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

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“There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.”

— S.J. Watson

I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.

— S.J. Watson