The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
STEPHANIE BRIARTrauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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You could not keep me fed by throwing me bones and empty promises. I am ashamed to admit how much starving I did before I finally left.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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