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Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.

J.A. Redmerski

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J.A. Redmerski
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 25
Novelist
Little Rock
Arkansas
Conformist
Coincidence
Fate
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I run behind her, letting her stay a few steps ahead of me so if she happens to fall I’ll be there to laugh at her first and then help her up afterwards.
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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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Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.
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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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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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There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
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I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.
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Oh, this is going to be fun he actually thinks he's teaching me something.
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I want to do everything with you
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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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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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It's the people y'gotta watch out for. You never know who y'might meet, or what Ol' Man Fate has in store for yah.
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Because this is our life. We met on the road we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.
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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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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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But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying.
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I love the smell of Waffle House it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.
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You're like a philosopher with tattoos.
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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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...I watch her so much that I forget it's raining at all.
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