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
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This author seems to have some trouble dealing with the past, it is written in a way that she cannot get over the fact that something bad happened. The quote gets some meaning when you realize that she was suicidal before she had the chance to be happy. Even though this quote is written by a famous author, it is one of the most popular quotes on suicide.

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