S J Watson Quotes

Everything seems different now. The room I am in looks no more familiar to me than it did this morning when I woke up and stumbled into it, trying to find the kitchen, desperate for a drink of water, desperate to piece together what happened last night. And yet it no longer seems shot through with pain, and sadness. It no longer seems emblematic of a life I cannot consider living. The ticking of the clock at my shoulder is no longer just marking time. It speaks to me. Relax, it says. Relax, and take what comes. ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

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

I am sliding, down,down. Toward blackness, I must not sleep. I must not sleep.I.Must.Not.Sleep. ~ S.J. Watson

Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof. ~ S.J. Watson

It's perfectly possible to hold two opposing points of view in the mind at once, oscillating between them. ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

Men always say I LOVE YOU as a QUESTION ~ S.J. Watson

Two wrongs don't make anything right, but maybe they make things more equal. ~ S.J. Watson

Progress? You call this progress?" I was almost shouting now, anger spilled out of me as if I could no longer contain it. "If that's what it is, then I don't know if I want it." The tears were flooding now, uncontrollable. "I don't want it!" I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

I am an adult, but a damaged one. ~ S.J. Watson

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began. ~ S.J. Watson

This is dying everyday. Over and over. ~ S.J. Watson

The hands on the shoulder, then the hug.The mouths that find each other through the tears. ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

We're constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it. ~ S.J. Watson

I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become. ~ S.J. Watson

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better. ~ S.J. Watson

We sat opposite each other across a table that swam with spilled coffee, warming our hands on our drinks. ~ S.J. Watson

She looks so young, so hungry, her eyes full of possibility, of what is in store for her. ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

I could think of nothing, nothing to say, nothing to feel. My mind was empty. ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever. ~ S.J. Watson

Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear? ~ S.J. Watson

These snatched moments. Kneeling in front of the closet or leaning on the bed. Writing. I am feverish. It floods out of me, almost without thought. Pages and pages. I am here again now, while Ben thinks I am resting. I cannot stop. I want to write down everything. I wonder if this is what it was like when I wrote my novel, this pouring onto the page. Or had that been slower, more considered? I wish I could remember. ~ S.J. Watson

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind. ~ S.J. Watson

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

I will never abandon you. I love you too much. ~ S.J. Watson

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed. ~ S.J. Watson

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? ~ S.J. Watson

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 ~ S.J. Watson

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

I am frightened to discover my past. What I have achieved, and what I have not. ~ 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. ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories? ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

I wish I hadn't. I wish I'd fought for you. I was weak and stupid. ~ S.J. Watson

We both pretended to attach no significance to what had happened, and so revealed just how much significance there was. ~ S.J. Watson

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. ~ S.J. Watson

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

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. ~ S.J. Watson

... 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. ~ S.J. Watson

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

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

There was a letter, tucked among the pictures. It was addressed to Santa Claus and written in blue crayon. The jerky letters danced across the page. He wanted a bike, he said, or a puppy, and promised to be good. It was signed, and he had added his age. Four.
I do not know why, but as I read it, my world seemed to collapse. Grief exploded in my chest like a grenade. I had been feeling calm - not happy, not even resigned, but calm - and that serenity vanished, as if vaporized. Beneath it, I was raw. ~ S.J. Watson

There is so much,I thought,just under the surface. So many memories, darting like silvery minnows in a shallow stream. ~ S.J. Watson

Son, you are now a man,' then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made. ~ S.J. Kincaid

'When two people meet who are obviously attracted to each other, like we are, it always starts out as a game. I make a move, you make a move, and if the moves are correct, we both win.' ~ S.J.D. Peterson

Time is a creation of vague mind used to describe an unknown dimension in the 3D world. ~ Vishwanath S J

Not just in America. When I left my primary school, my father said, 'Son, you are now a man,' then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made." Vik fought to keep his lips from twitching. ~ S.J. Kincaid

There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me. ~ S.J Perelman

Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best. ~ Thomas J. Watson

Between the streams of probability & possibility, lies the timeless, spaceless realm where time gets created! ~ Vishwanath S J

Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time. ~ Vishwanath S J

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again. ~ S.J Perelman

Jesus Christ is our true greatness; it is He alone and His Cross that should be sought in running after these people; for if you strive for anything else, you will gain naught but bodily and spiritual affliction. But having found Jesus Christ in His Cross, you have found the roses in the thorns, sweetness in bitterness, everything in nothing. ~ Francis Talbot, S.J.

Tom just stood there, sword in hand, a huge grin on his lips. He stared at Medusa and Medusa stared at him, and in this moment that made his dreams come true, Tom could only think of one thing to say.

"How's it going? ~ S.J. Kincaid

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ~ S.J Perelman

There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about. ~ S.J Perelman

Tom became distracted by the sight of his own boobs. He reached down to grab them. Wyatt cleared her throat.

"What?" Tom said defensively. "They're mine."

"You aren't seriously planning to just sit there groping yourself in front of me, are you? That's kind of rude."

Tom dropped his hands, a bit sheepish. "What, come on. You've got some new equipment, too. You're not curious?"

Wyatt's armor clanked as she shifted awkwardly in her seat. "It's not like I haven't played sims as men before."

"Right." Tom grinned. "So you've already done the groping thing."

"That's not what I said! ~ S.J. Kincaid

Grief is an impossible meal, so we cut it up into little pieces, dress it in ritual, and take it like a pill. ~ S.J. Sindu

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. ~ S.J. Rozan

What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does. ~ S.J. Rozan

I didn't replace Eli in Blake's heart. He simply made a little extra room to invite me in. ~Ty Callahan~ ~ S.J.D. Peterson

Genghises. Large, angry Genghises. ~ S.J. Kincaid

What are you? Agents of the FBI's X-Files Bureau?" "I didn't know they let the furry into the Bureau these days," snorts Owen. ~ S.J. Harper

That smile of hers could seriously crash planes. ~ S.J. Kincaid

These were wild aromas, far from the schoolroom, church building, or city. Like a secret handshake, these smells meant you were among a higher class. Men who were the best men Wilder knew. The kind of man he wanted, and intended, to be. ~ S.J. Dahlstrom

What's being crazy like?" Wyatt blurted.

"That depends, Enslow. What's being tactless and completely inappropriate like? ~ S.J. Kincaid

Come on, Beamer! I beheaded you for your own good. ~ S.J. Kincaid

Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death. ~ Vishwanath S J

All you really need to do is focus on building quality relationships instead of trying to be a social butterfly at every social gathering. ~ S.J. Scott

certain group of people in the United States tried an experiment. They tried the experiment of making a fortune without working, of making a fortune through the stock exchange. They extended the experiment until it exploded and all went down to earth. "Aspects of World Trade" Thomas J. Watson Sr. July 31, 1930 ~ Peter Greulich

Variety is the Spice of Life. What Have You Varied Today? ~ S.J. Francis

Time has witnessed events even before it's own birth without energy. ~ Vishwanath S J

The Catholic chruch as threatened your life - do you not want revenge? Have you not sold your hatred to the Pretestant cause to work against the church that has hunted you?"
"No," I said simply. "I hate no one. I want only to be left in peace to understand the mysteries of the universe in my own way."
"God has already laid out for us the mysteries of the universe, or as much as He permits us to understand. You think your way is better?"
"Better than these wars of dogma that have led men to burn and fillet one another across Europe for fifty years? Yes, I do."
"Then what is it you believe?"
I looked at him. "I believe that, in the end, even the devils will be pardoned. ~ S.J. Parris

People spoke so reverently of affection. For me, it seemed a torment. I couldn't believe people enjoyed these feelings. How could someone relish this excruciating need to secure a claim on another human? ~ S.J. Kincaid

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order. ~ S.J. Rozan

It's important to put aside your internal editor and just get words down on the page when working on a first draft. ~ S.J. Scott

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. ~ S.J Perelman