John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain..."
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"...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ..."
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
"...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ..."
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
"...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave..."
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
"...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
"...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits"
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
"...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves..."
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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