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Love Quotes by John Geddes

117 Love quotes by John Geddes

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John Geddes paints love with sacred images, calling it a coal from God's altar and a star cupped in hands. He describes love as an irrevocable act, a single heart given once, deeper than any physical touch. He also writes that love rescues a lonely soul, guiding it out of a personal labyrinth.

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“...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...”

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“...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ...”

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“...true love is my religion...”

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

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“...you don't need a calling to minister love...”

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“...I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..”

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“...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...”

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“...The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you?...”

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“...you forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood...”

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“...I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...”

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“...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...”

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“...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...”

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“...some people are incapable of love - they have calloused souls...”

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“...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..”

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“...in India ink your writing is lovely, but not as lovely as your hand - it is your hand - I know…

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“...take off your sweater in the darkness and static flares as a tiny lightning storm - I am the same at the…

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“...there's something magical about a mask, but I have never worn one - I want you to see my pain and know…

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“...a bard's down-to-earth love: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads…

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“...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you…

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“...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide…

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“...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind…

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...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...

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“...surely by now you must know: It’s love; it’s love—but will there ever be good news?...”

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“...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...”

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“I send my words to you over the ether net like a message in a bottle...”

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“...I know I misplace my glasses - the one's I don't need - you roll your eyes - but I don't misplace…

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“...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...”

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“...when you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in...”

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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...”

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“...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...”

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“when I see you, I see mystery - a pale moon's beauty behind a veil of cloud”

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

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“...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you...”

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...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...

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“...I keep breaking things - appointments and porcelain, thinking of your lips...”

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“...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...”

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“...before you, I was a doubled-up fist - now I can hold soft things, fragile as butterfly wings...”

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“...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...”

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“...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask…

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“...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?”

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“...those others - they're looking for trends - subjects to catch a spark - but I have you - a coal from God's altar…

“...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...”

“...I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...”

“... my early writing was a silent fury - at what or whom, I had no idea - but I shut it in until…

“...little children adore me - I'm a Troll Tamer and they know it!...”

“...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...”

“... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we…

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

“...God daubs stars into galaxies with fiery paint - the same lacquer he uses upon your lips...”

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

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

“...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...”

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you…

“...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires...”

...not even the wind can bring a tear to my eye the way you do...