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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Hurt, Mean, Problem

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Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.

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Heart, Suicidal, Winning

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I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

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Real, Past, Thinking

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Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast.

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Worst Moments, Slow Down, Happened

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It’s like, you know, it doesn’t matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it’ll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

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Trying, Matter, Way

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Pain hurts, but pain that's so powerful that you can't feel anymore, that's when you start to feel like you're going crazy.

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Hurt, Pain, Powerful

J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I’ve known you for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you forever

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Real, Past, Thinking

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Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you can’t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way.

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Memories, Moving, Past

J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.73, HarperCollins UK

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It’s like irresistible poison: I’m mesmerized by the way it’s making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I drink it down anyway.

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Crush, Soul, Poison

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You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me.

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Real, Emotion, Made

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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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Dream, Being Yourself, Speak Your Mind

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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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Pain, Play, People

J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren’t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it’s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.

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Growing Up, Real, Believe

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This goes against everything that I am, Sarai," he says and then kisses me. "No, it doesn't," I whisper and kiss him back. "It's you becoming more of who you really are.

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Kissing, Kiss Me, Becoming

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I believe that no matter what happens, or where we go, or if there's an afterlife, that we'll always be connected. Not even death can make me forget you, or forget that I love you.

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Believe, Love You, Afterlife

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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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Purpose, Might, Logic

J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.36, HarperCollins UK

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I’m not a follower. I never have been. But I’ll definitely become someone I’m not for a few hours if it’ll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.

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Eye, Attention, Followers

J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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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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Someone You Love, Matter, Next

J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? 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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Yesterday, Needs, Want

J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.

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Choices

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I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.

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Falling In Love, Love Life, Thinking

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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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Feelings, World, Cry

J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.87, HarperCollins UK

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Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you'll get wherever it is you're going a lot faster and with less bumps in the way.

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Memories, Live In The Moment, Bumps

J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.73, HarperCollins UK

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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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Hurt, Mistake, Perfect

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I promise to love you forever in this life and wherever we go in the afterlife, because I know I can't go on in any life unless you're in it too.

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Love You, Afterlife, Forever

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Born: November 25, 1975
Occupation: Novelist
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