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Quotes from John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

...I've marked our sacred place not with stones - I've put it my art to keep it safe...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...you don't need a calling to minister love...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...God and your heart both whisper - incline your ear - don't just learn from your head...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...Neruda was right about all mysterious women - The moon lives in the lining of their skin...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain