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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."

"Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words."

"When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness."

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

"Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of " lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is that out there in the lonely nowhere was a special quietness, free of the sounds of daytime birds or foxes at night " and that it was a quietness she might like to listen to one day."
Explore more quotes by John Geddes

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

"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..."

"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."

"Last night, lost in spaces between star-bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you."

"Yes I understand your spells-your sex magic-at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in..."

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