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Coincidence is just a safe conformist 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
Safe

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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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I want to do everything with you
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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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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 bus ride is like being in another world.
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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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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 watch her so much that I forget it's raining at all.
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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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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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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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You’re the world to me,” I whisper onto her lips. “I hope you never forget that.” “I’ll never forget,” she whispers back.. “But if I ever do, for whatever reason, I hope you’ll always find a way to remind me.” ...“Always.
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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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Andrew..,' I shake my head, tears rolling my cheeks, '... it was always you, I whisper harshly. 'Even with Ian, I felt something was missing. I told you, that night in the field I told you that...,' My voice trails. I smile and say, 'you are my partner in crime. I've known that for a long time.
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Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.
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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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Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.
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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 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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There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.
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