Top 100 J.A. Redmerski Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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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2. “It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.”

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3. “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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4. “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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5. “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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6. “You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.”

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7. “I want to do everything with you.”

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8. “Ultimately, it’s my choice and only my choice.”

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9. “Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud.”

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10. “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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11. “A bus ride is like being in another world.”

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12. “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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13. “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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14. “You’re more important to me than anything or anyone. To have you here, with me, isn’t a burden. I want to train you. For as long as it takes. I want to wake up every morning with you next to me. I need you in my life more than I have ever needed or wanted anything.”

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15. “To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you.”

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16. “I know I’m not your first anything, but I hope that I’ll be your last everything.”

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17. “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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18. “I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.”

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19. “I go to the window of my top floor hotel room and gaze out, not at the glittering city, but at the stars fully awake in the early morning sky. And I see her, Izabel, Sarai, in every single one of them. And this is how I know, that because of her, because I see her in everything, I am not only a monster, but a man.”

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20. “I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.”

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21. “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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22. “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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23. “I guess sometimes the greatest memories are made in the most unlikely of places, further proof that spontaneity is more rewarding than a meticulously planned life.”

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24. “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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25. “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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26. “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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27. “I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.”

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28. “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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29. “Two people unable to cry finally cry together and in the world ended today, we would be fulfilled.”

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30. “What you wear doesn’t really matter much. All that matters is where you’re going what you’re doing while you’re wearing it.”

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31. “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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32. “One more thing: don’t feel bad for not telling me that you loved me. You didn’t need to say it. I knew all along that you did.”

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33. “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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34. “Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.”

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35. “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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36. “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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37. “You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me.”

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38. “The longer you look the more you see,” said the twins at the same time, “the more you see, the less you are.”

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39. “Everybody starts out as strangers.”

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “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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43. “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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44. “When we pull away, he rests his hand on my thigh pressed next to his and we ride like that for a long time; the only time he moves his hand is to take better control of a sharp curve or to adjust the music, but he always puts it right back. And I always want him to.”

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45. “He never leaves my side. And I know he never will.”

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46. “I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.”

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47. “I’m not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It’s there sitting dormant. I’ll know it when I see it.”

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48. “Love always comes first.”

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49. “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,” he says as if making a serious point, “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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50. “There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.”

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