S. J. Watson Quotes

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

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• 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
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Grief