Quotes by John Geddes

...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you...

...I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness

...the most beautiful things dont always make you happy - often they make you weep...

...I always thought youth were idealists - now, Im not so sure - Im more idealistic now then at 17...

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

...each person is required to ask, what is my authority? - on what do you base your decisions? if its yourself, then you are without excuse...

...what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...

...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

...if youve got writers block, you arent empty - maybe its just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...

...when youre a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

...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...

...I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...

...Ive marked our sacred place not with stones - Ive put it my art to keep it safe...

you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes

you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer

...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...