50 Quotes by S.J. Watson

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 my mind tries to settle on it, it flutters away, like ashes caught in a breeze, and I realize that in my life there is a then, a before, though before what I cannot say, and there is a now, and there is nothing between the two but a long, silent emptiness that has led me here, to me and him, in this house.

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

To create myself from nothing.

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

Get busy achieving all the things in life you want to achieve, because one day you'll be fine and the next ...

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.

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