J.A. Redmerski
Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt lessCollection: Hurt
Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Real
Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast.Collection: Worst Moments
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.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Hurt
I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I’ve felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. 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 foreverCollection: Real
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.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Crush
You made me feel real emotions. You unlocked me.Collection: Real
Just remember to always be yourself and don’t be afraid to speak your mind or to dream out loudCollection: Dream
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.Collection: Pain
And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren’t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it’s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.Collection: Growing Up
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?Collection: Yesterday
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Someone You Love
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.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Feelings
I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experiences and delusions.Collection: Falling In Love
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.Collection: Purpose
Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Hurt
I have to live and make my own choices, my own mistakes. You have to let me be me, even if i suck at it sometimes." - AdriaCollection: Mistake
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.Collection: Love You
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.Collection: Kissing
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.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Stars
I say that I'm not into you like that, Camryn, because..," he pauses, searching my face, looking at my lips for a moment as if deciding whether or not he should kiss them again, "...because you're not the girl I could only sleep with once.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Want
Two people unable to cry finally cry together and in the world ended today, we would be fulfilled.Collection: Two
I want to do everything with youCollection: Want
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.Collection: Sitting
If it makes you feel better, you can tell me to screw off if you want to refuse anything, but I hope you won't because I really want to show you how to live." - Andrew ParrishCollection: Feel Better
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.Collection: Needs
The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature.Collection: Helping
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.Collection: Night
Everybody starts out as strangers.Collection: Stranger
Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Running
I know you lost your partner in crime, but...I want YOU to be MINE. Maybe WE should travel the world together, Camryn...I know I can't replace your ex--" "Andrew...it was always you.Collection: Together
My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Memories
I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.Collection: Thinking
But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying.Collection: Heart
Oh, this is going to be fun; he actually thinks he's teaching me something.Collection: Fun
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.Collection: Matter
It’s my future and my life and I can’t make myself live the way someone else wants me to.Collection: Want
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.Collection: Real