Top 56 S.J. Watson Quotes

#1. Chrissy," she said. Her voice was quiet, measured. I thought I detected something in it, some new emotion. Fear. "Describe Ben to me.

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#2. It's perfectly possible to hold two opposing points of view in the mind at once, oscillating between them.

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#3. I wonder what I would find if I could go back and decipher the layers, if it were possible to delve into my past that way, but realize that, even if it were possible, it would be futile.

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#4. This is dying everyday. Over and over.

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

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#6. I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become.

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#7. The little things. Perhaps it is these trivialities I have been writing down in my book, these small hooks on which my whole life is hung.

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#8. Two wrongs don't make anything right, but maybe they make things more equal.

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#9. We both pretended to attach no significance to what had happened, and so revealed just how much significance there was.

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

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#11. I am sliding, down,down. Toward blackness, I must not sleep. I must not sleep.I.Must.Not.Sleep.

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#12. these truths are all I have. They are my past. They are what makes me human. Without them, I am nothing. Nothing but an animal.

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#13. Kiss me, Ben," I said. "Properly.

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#14. Instead, 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 a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance. I

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

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

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#17. I think of my sponsor. Rachel. "Addiction is a patient disease," she said to me once. "It'll wait for your whole life, if it has to. Never forget that.

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

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#19. 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 animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.

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#20. We're wearing masks, all of us, all of the time. We're presenting a face, a version of ourselves, to the world, to each other. We show a different face depending on who we're with and what they expect of us. Even when we're alone it's just another mask, the version of ourselves we'd prefer to be.

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#21. She said that you and Ben were separated. Ben left you. A year or so after you moved to Waring House." "Separated?" I said. It felt as if the room was receding, becoming vanishingly small. Disappearing.

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#22. I saw his eyes go up and he looked past me, toward the door, as if he were watching it, waiting. But there was no one there, it did not open, no one left or came in. I wondered if he was actually dreaming of escape.

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#23. I am frightened to discover my past. What I have achieved, and what I have not.

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#24. 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 a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.

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#25. His grief is not new. It has had the time to bed down within him, to become part of his foundations, rather than something that rocks them.

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#26. I guess sometimes it's not so much about how long you've known someone, but about what you've been through together.

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#27. I could see it all. The hand on the shoulder, then the hug. The mouths that find each other through the tears, the moment when guilt and the certainty that things must go no further gives way to lust and the certainty that they cannot stop.

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#28. We are in a restaurant, smilling, leaning in over a half-eaten meal, our faces flushed with love and thr bite of the sun.

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

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#30. To create myself from nothing.

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#31. I looked over at him, running in the distance. Another faulty, fucked-up brain in a healthy body.

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

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#33. He forgave you though,' said Claire. 'He never held it against you, ever. All he cared about was that you lived, and that you got better. He would have given everything for that. Everything. Nothing else mattered.

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#34. Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

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#35. Why did he feel that wanting to make sense of my fractured life meant that I wanted to change it in some way?

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#36. Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

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#37. There is so much,I thought,just under the surface. So many memories, darting like silvery minnows in a shallow stream.

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#38. It's not life, it's just an existence, jumping from one moment to the next with no idea of the past, and no plan for the future.

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#39. I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.

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#40. I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty.

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#41. But, I realized, these truths are all I have. They are my past. They are what makes me human. Without them, I am nothing. Nothing but an animal. I

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#42. I am an adult, but a damaged one.

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#43. 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 things for what they are.

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

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

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#46. 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, disappointing him.

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

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

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#49. There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.

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

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#51. I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.

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#52. He put his hand on mine. I fell into him, knowing what he would do, what he must do, and he did. He opened his arms and held me, and I let him embrace me. "It's okay," he said. "It's okay.

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

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

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#55. I asked for this, I thought, at the same time as I never asked for this. Is it possible to both
want and not want something at the same time?

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#56. How will I feel when I look in a mirror and see the reflection of my grandmother?

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