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

S.J. Watson

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

Tags: body, brain, faulty, fucked up, healthy

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

S.J. Watson

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

Tags: all right, before i go to sleep, beginnings, endings, happy endings, life, living, s j watson

About Author
Steve "S. J." Watson (born 1971) is an English writer. He debuted in 2011 with the thriller novel Before I Go to Sleep. Rights to publish the book have been sold in 42 countries and it has continued to be an international bestseller.

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...

S.J. Watson

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...

Tags: animal, before i go to sleep, day, life, living, moment, myself, rest, s j watson, safe place

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...

S.J. Watson

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...

Tags: before i go to sleep, certainty, guilty, lust, s j watson, wrong

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 bree...

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 bree...

Tags: christine, emptiness, memory, mind

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

S.J. Watson

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

Tags: floating, mercy, sadness, wind

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 e...

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 e...

Tags: love, relationship

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

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

Tags: forgiveness, love

To create myself from nothing.

S.J. Watson

To create myself from nothing.

Tags: identity

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

S.J. Watson

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

Tags: beginning, confusion, end, lost, pain, pleasure