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I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.

J.A. Redmerski

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J.A. Redmerski
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 25
Novelist
Little Rock
Arkansas
Afraid
Think
Thinking
Life

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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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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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I don’t want to sleep alone,” she says gently. And I don’t force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her.
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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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You're like a philosopher with tattoos.
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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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Everybody starts out as strangers.
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Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, this is going to be fun he actually thinks he's teaching me something.
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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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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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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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My plant is probably dead. Camryn looks slightly surprised. You have a plant? I smile. Yeah, her name's Georgia.
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Coincidence is just a safe conformist for fate.
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Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.
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