John Geddes Quotes

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“...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...”

Love Magic Rhythm Of Living

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“...I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...”

Rain Sunlight Stone Trolls Self Esteen

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“...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...”

Heart Stories Writer Craft Writer Quote Whisperer

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“...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...”

Love Feelings Poetry Deep Feelings Touches

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“..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...”

Loneliness Wind Snow Poetry Quote Hissing Ice Skate

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“...you have a terrible beauty that scares me - a fierce defiance that won't be subdued - not that i want to tame you - I don't - I like to look...”

Beauty Defiance Fierceness Tame Subdued

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“...you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up...”

Heart Confession Buried Secrets

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“...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...”

Supernatural Nymph Sylph

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“...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...”

Evil Desert Arid Monters

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“...when everything changes, I need a bookmark - I need you...”

Love Dependence Pause Selah Anchor Bookmark

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“...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...”

Language Writing Process Writing Advice Elizabethan Writing Mindset

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“...when I was a kid, Toronto streets were deserted and quiet on Sundays, except for the sound of church bells I stood on the sidewalk one December listening to the Christmas bells - I've never forgotten that moment...”

Memories December Childhood Memories Toronto Church Bells Christmas Bells Deserted Streets

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“...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...”

Streets Writer Muse Eulogy Childhood Memories Slum Maudlin

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“...the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...”

Love Purpose Missing You Poetry Quote The Wind

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“...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...”

Writing Process Weeping Emotional Pain Writing From The Heart Writing Secrets

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“...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...”

Love Magic Spells Lights Sex Magick

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“...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...”

Self Crime Monsters Demonize

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“...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...”

Love Hurt Grief Superficiality

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“...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...”

Hope Sleep Dreams Terrible Despair Poetry Quotes

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“...the wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...”

Sleep Wind Poetry Quotes Lullaby Sings Exultation

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“...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door...”

Poetry Nature Sleep Cat Dawn The World

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“...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...”

Feelings Apathy Resentment Wounded Muse

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