S.J. Watson

Quotes

• “We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version...”
• “I could see it all. The hand on the shoulder, then the hug. The mouths that find each other through the tears, the momen...”
• “I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal. That is what I am. An anim...”
• “He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and tha...”
• “Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others ...”
• “With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the b...”
• “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 hind...”
• “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 ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.”
• “I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.”
• “Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.”
• “There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.”
• “What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?”
• “To create myself from nothing.”