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Quotes from John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...everything is gone except traces of you inside me - and the years like the wind are sweeping those away ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...my dreams are tangled in images of stars and clouds and firelight - we go camping at night - it's my lucid dream of being with you...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...if it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain