@johnjgeddes

<br><br><center>*For jaded people, the only pleasure left is to demolish others. ― Anaïs Nin*</center> <br><br><center> ![bar-contemplation-moment-stockcake.jpg](https://images.hi…

<br><br><center>*No young man slips into life gracefully. ― E.M. Forster* </center> <br><br><center> ![StockCake-Distinguished Gentleman Posing_1759265580.jpg](https://cdn.steemi…

<br><br><center>*The world was made of mysteries, but she a riddle among millions. She didn't acknowledge me. Hers was a door that didn't open at my knock and that was a novelty i…

<br><br><center>*There is no light in earth or heaven
But the cold light of stars;
And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* </cent…

<br><br><center>*There were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. I could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous…

<br><br><center>*We fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...*</center> <br><br><center> ![Monster.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmRFjohu1RZBcDy9fjDfGgGPzvyf57…

<br><br><center>*You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn. ―Margaret Atwood*</center> <br><br><center> ![Astrid.png](https://images.hive…

<br><br><center>*She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within. ― John Mark Green* </center> <br><br><center> ![Astid.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQm…

<br><br><center>*She’s an anthropologist … a looter—one who robs graves, preferably old ones. She’s well-educated and steals artifacts in a dignified manner*. ― Tony Hillerman</cen…

<br><br><center>*The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. ― Italo Calvino*</center> 
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<br><br><center>*There's nothing more haunted than a house. Beings gather there. Every house is a planet, exerting gravitational pull and has a dark wood with a wicked witch in …

<br><br><center>*I get mixed up with the life we led and the life I imagined...*</center> <br><br><center> ![jarvis510.jpg](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNXAwUPiHjjjvBeHtYS6KE…

<br><br><center>*You test the strength of a wind by walking against it, not by lying down. — C. S. Lewis*</center> <br><br><center> ![istockphoto-1082090840-612x612.jpg](https://i…

<br><br><center>*There’s nothing impossible for the soul. It’s sin to say you are weak, or others are weak — Swami Vivekanada*</center> <br><br><center> ![provocative-young-woman…

<br><br><center>*Searching for the unattainable is like falling through air and grabbing at clouds.* — Jonny Wilkinson </center> <br><br><center> ![Jessica.jpg](https://images.hiv…

<br><br><center>*Every man loves two women; one is a creation of his imagination, the other not yet born.* —Kahlil Gibran</center> <br><br><center>![Jessica's House.jpg](https://i…

<br><br><center>*The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky.* </center> <br><br><center>![Stella.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmYDRW1zVwx7Sjx1t…

<br><br><center>*Footfalls echo in memory, Down a passage we did not take towards a door we never opened, into a rose garden —TS Eliot*</center> <br><br><center> ![Art Deco.jpg](…

<br><br><center>*Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds. ― John Green*</center> <br><br><center> ![Lost in the Stars.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmcx8a7PhWh5…

<br><br><center>*The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. —Alice Roosevelt Longworth*</center> <br><br><center> ![dsc_0063.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQme2YYureuG96…