50 Quotes by S.J. Watson

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

We tell ourselves often enough that something happened, we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.

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.

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.

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