“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“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.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, and the blood in my veins.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, 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, 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 road along the way.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“A woman who knows what she wants sexually, and isn’t afraid to express it is so fucking hot, Camryn- Tell. Me. What. You. Want. Or, I won’t give it to you.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“If you were to let me fuck you, you would have to let me own you.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loud”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“I want you, goddammit! … The thought of you leaving at never seeing you again tears-me-up-inside! … I can’t fucking breathe without you!”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Well, everybody needs help feeling alive again every once in a while.” “No,” she says seriously, and my gaze falls back on hers, “I didn’t say again, Andrew; for making me feel alive for the first time.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“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.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“You two were meant to be together. It's like some wicked fucking fairytale love story that you just can't make up, y'know?”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Are you in love with me, Camryn Bennett?”
… “Not yet,” I say with a smile in my voice, “but I’m getting there.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“The Heart always wins out over the mind, The heart, although reckless and suicidal and masochist all on its own, always gets it way. The mind may be what's best, but I don't give a shit what my mind is telling me anymore. Right now, I want to live in the moment.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“She got pissed when I accused her of having Bieber Fever (it pisses me off that I even know what the fuck that means – I blame that on society)”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“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.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“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.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not.
That's completely asinine.
The truth is that adults love in different ways, not the only way.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“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.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Whether it was about sleeping next to a pile of cow shit or under a bridge overpass next to a homeless drunk-I would sleep anywhere with her.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“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.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
“Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Never
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“When I met Maria at Sachs' apartment in 1979, she hadn't slept with a man in close to three years. It took her that long to recover from the shock of the beating, and abstinence was not a choice so much as a necessity, the only possible cure. As much as the physical humiliation she had suffered, the incident with Jerome had been a spiritual defeat. For the first time in her life, Maria had been chastened. She had stepped over the boundaries of herself, and the brutality of that experience had altered her sense of who she was. Until then, she had imagined herself capable of any thing: any adventure, any transgression, any dare. She had felt stronger than other people, immunized against the ravages and failures that afflict the rest of humanity. After the switch with Lilian, she learned how badly she had deceived herself. She was weak, she discovered, a person hemmed in by her own fears and inner constraints, as mortal and confused as anyone else.
It took her three years to repair the damage (to the extent that it was ever repaired), and when we crossed paths at Sachs's apartment that night, she was more or less ready to emerge from her shell.”
― Paul Auster, quote from Leviathan
“I see a sweet country. I could rest my weapon there.”
― Thomas Cahill, quote from How the Irish Saved Civilization
“I wanted to leave the whole war behind me, and yet I was seeing something on that battlefield that demanded commemoration. It was unholy ground, but I wanted to thank God for showing it to me. I would never again look at a man without wondering what crimes he was capable of committing. That seemed important to know.”
― Robert Hicks, quote from The Widow of the South
“At the time that this book is being written, I am single. If you've ever heard that song by Beyoncé, "Single Ladies", I am one of the people she's singing about. I have to be, because she sings, "All the single ladies." If she didn't mean to include me in that, then she really needs to choose her words more carefully.”
― Sarah Silverman, quote from The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
“Caden let out his own moan when her lips pressed against the skin in front of his ear. She exhaled roughly. The rush of her breath over his skin brought goose bumps to his neck.
He trailed soft kisses across her cheek until he found her lips.
And then he couldn’t go slow anymore.
And neither could she.”
― Laura Kaye, quote from Hearts in Darkness
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