Top 100 J.A. Redmerski Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Depression is pain in its purest form.”

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52. “There is a stark difference between fear and uncertainty, Sarai. You fear nothing but are uncertain of everything.”

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53. “The moment you see someone attractive, you can’t help but make note of it. It’s human nature.”

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54. “Just stare at thr night sky and let yourself get lost in it every now and then.”

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55. “You’re still human and the moment you see someone attractive, you can’t help but make note of it. It’s human nature. Acting on it is a whole other story and that’s where I draw the line.”

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56. “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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57. “Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.”

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58. “Love makes a person vulnerable, even the most skilled, most intelligent, most unbreakable human being. It’s just how things are. None of us can help it.”

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59. “He loves me without having to say it. He cherishes me without having to prove it. When he touches me I know what he’s thinking, how he truly feels beneath that mask he wears in the face of others. I’m the only soul he’s ever let into his life completely. And the only one he’ll never let go.”

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60. “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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61. “My beautiful swan. My savior and my undoing.”

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62. “To love someone means you have something in life to fight for, something to live for – I guess you wouldn’t know, you’ve never felt love, so you can’t possibly understand.”

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63. “Because we only have one life. We get one shot at making it worth living.”

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64. “The past has shaped me, molded me into a monster. A monster with a persecuted heart and a dead soul.”

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65. “You ask me, and I’ll tell you the truth – anything out of people’s usual expectations throws them off track.”

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66. “As you are becoming stronger, Izabel, I am becoming weaker. I have stepped so far out of the only life I have ever known, that I do not know myself anymore.”

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67. “There are no dead ends. There is always a trail; sometimes they are just harder to find.”

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68. “I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.”

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69. “I want to be your Eurydice, if you’ll let me.”

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70. “You should never let your target know your weaknesses, because the smart ones will know how to use them against you.”

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71. “You’re sleeping with an assassin, running for your life every single day from men who want to kill you and you’re convinced you’re going to die of discomfort.”

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72. “And either this will be my first night as a killer, or my last night alive.”

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73. “I was wrong about you, Izabel,” I whisper near her ear; the pain engulfing my insides. “I am the ticking time bomb. I am more unstable than I ever could have imagined. You are discipline, and I am rage. And the only way I know to control the chaos inside, is to eradicate the things that control me.”

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74. “People generally cannot be trusted, especially in my profession where trust is such a rarity that it’s not worth wasting the time and effort searching for it.”

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75. “I think I’ve been afraid most of my life to be myself.”

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76. “I’m definitely not some kind of reformed badass created by my extraordinary experiences, either. Just ask the spider that crawled on me the other night while I was reading a book in bed. Mrs. Gregory about had a heart attack I screamed so loud.”

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77. “Truthfully, he lives right next to the Sexy Tree and I think that’s the only thing that bothers me about this whole situation.”

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78. “I’m not afraid. Monsters aren’t usually afraid of other monsters.”

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79. “Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. It’s a special day, for Lily, for us, for everything the three of us stand for. 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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80. “No one is immune to change, especially those who fear it. It comes for us first, and it destroys us swiftly because we fight it the hardest.”

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81. “Killing is the easy part. Getting to that point without getting yourself killed in the process is the hard part.”

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82. “Loyalty is not so unlike love: you do things for it that you would not otherwise do; you feel a terrible, all-consuming sense of responsibility to uphold it; you go the extra mile to prove it; and most of all, you accept the pain it creates because to deny it would be to deny the loyalty itself. The only difference between loyalty and love is that for love you do all of these things because you want to, and you would do them again, and again, and again. Loyalty is learned; love is organic.”

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83. “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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84. “She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.”

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85. “It is the best way, Sarai. To learn from your mistakes is to make them. Authentically. No amount of training, no rehearsed scenario is going to teach you better than the real thing.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he’s teaching me something.”

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88. “Beautiful but defeated and damaged. Damaged for the rest of her life and no amount of emotional mutilation will ever fully give her back her innocence. The girl is a ticking time bomb, a danger to herself and very possibly to others. I wasn’t sure before, but now I know that she is more unstable than I ever could have imagined. And because she is so skilled at hiding it, not only from me but also from herself, she is more dangerous than I am.”

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89. “Perhaps, Izabel, you should stop worrying about what you don’t possess and focus all of your energy on what you do. No one can be good at everything.”

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90. “I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them.”

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91. “Never thought I’d intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I meant it when I said I would sleep anywhere with her.”

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92. “The soundtrack of our time togeter, our short life together, has faded away as the last song on the album ends. All I can hear anymore is the smooth vibration of silence coming from the speakers. I feel like all I want to do us reach out and start it over again, but my hand won’t move to press the button.”

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93. “I never like to see someone hurting, but I admit whenever I heard someone play the depression card, I’d roll my eyes and go about my business.”

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94. “I just became Camryn Parrish.”

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95. “I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.”

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96. “I guess my parents really screwed me up somewhere along the line because as good as they are to me, as much as they do for me and as much as I love them, I still managed to grow up terrified I would end up just like them. Unhappy and only pretending to live out this wonderful life with two kids, a dog and a white picket fence. But in reality, I knew they sleep with their backs facing each other.”

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97. “The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything.”

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98. “I look at those hands. I look at them, long and hard and symbolically, because in my heart I know they’re the hands that will end my life before this night is over.”

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99. “To lovers and dreamers and anyone who hasn’t truly experienced either.”

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100. “And when I get mad, I always cry. It’s how I’ve been for as long as I can remember. And I hate it.”

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