S.j. Watson said this quote

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

With him everything is a test, affection is measured, that given weighed against that which has been received, and the balance, more often than not, disappointing him.

~ 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 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