J.A. Redmerski Quotes

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Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

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His face spreads into a warm smile. As a matter of fact, no, I have never slept under the stars – are you gettin' all romantic on me, Camryn Bennett? He looks at me with a playful sideward stare.

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There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

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She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.

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Well, I'm glad you didn't drown. His eyes warm up with his face. I smile back at him. Yeah, that would've sucked. Definitely.

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Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it's what makes being a best friend official.

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I say that I'm not into you like that, Camryn, because..," he pauses, searching my face, looking at my lips for a moment as if deciding whether or not he should kiss them again, "...because you're not the girl I could only sleep with once.

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My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.

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Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

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A real fighter never cries, never lets the weight of any blow bring him down. Except that final blow, the inevitable one, but even then they always go out like men.

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I'm starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.

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If it makes you feel better, you can tell me to screw off if you want to refuse anything, but I hope you won't because I really want to show you how to live." - Andrew Parrish

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Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It's a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.

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Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me. He changed the landscape of my dreams, the dreams I had every day about living ordinarily and free and on my own. He changed the colors on the palette from primary to rainbow—as dark as the colors of that rainbow may be.

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There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.

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I don't know myself. I don't know what I want or how I feel or how I should feeland I don't think I ever really have.

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Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can't know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the 'emotional growth' of a teenager's mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it's 'real' or not.

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Just remember to always be yourself and don't be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud

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I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.

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Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can't prepare youself for those changes no matter what you do in advance. The only thing that's a certainty in always wondering who's going to be next.

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What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

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I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.

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It's not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that's so powerful that you can't feel anything anymore, that's when you start to feel like you're going crazy.

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The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world's smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems; we all go through hardships and pain, and my pain is paradise compared to a lot of people's and I really have no right to whine at all.

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Let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it…starts to make things darker.

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