S.J. Watson Quotes

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• Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof.
• With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not,…
• I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show…
• …I feel like he’s taking advantage of me. Advantage of my illness. He thinks he can rewrite history in any way that he likes and…
• We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically.…
• I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid.
• I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.
• I will never abandon you. I love you too much.
• I step back further, until I feel cold tiles against my back. It is then I get the glimmer that I associate with memory. As…
• What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
• 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 we can see…
• Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in…
• Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.
• ‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?
• I closed my eyes and he kissed my eyelids, barely brushing them with his lips. I felt safe, at home. I felt as if here,…
• I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
• There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
• There are memories I a better off without. Things better lost forever.
• And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be together.
• I am an adult, but a damaged one.

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