Quotes by S.J. Watson

S.J. Watson

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

Desire

Want

Want Something

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

Together

Way

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

Admission

Misplaced

Trust Me

I am an adult, but a damaged one.

Adults

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 for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

House

Memories

Treasure

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

Abandoned

Eye

Grief

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, against his body, was the only place in which I belonged. The only place I had ever wanted to be. We lay in silence for a while, holding each other, our skin merging, our breathing synchronized. I felt as if silence might allow the moment to last for ever, which would still not be enough.

Breathing

Eye

Home

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 I will never know, never be any the wiser. But I do know. I know exactly what he’s doing. And so I don’t trust him. In the end he is pushing me away, Dr. Nash. Ruining everything.

Drs

Pushing

Thinking

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.

Long

Memories

Two

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

Ifs

Want

Want Him

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Abandon

Abandoned

Accumulation

Admission

Adults

Affection

Balance

Believe

Breathing

Desire

Difficult

Distance

Drs

Eye

Forever

Get Better

Grief

Happy Endings

Hindsight

Home

House

Ifs

Knows

Long

Lost

Love You

Melting

Memories

Middle

Might

Misplaced

Moments

Moving

Pages

Pushing

Snow

Stupid

Tests

Thinking

Together

Too Much

Treasure

Trust Me

Two

Want

Want Him

Want Something

Way

Weak

Wish

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Quotes by S.J. Watson

S.J. Watson

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

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

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

I am an adult, but a damaged one.

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 for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

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

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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