In my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
STEPHANIE BRIARHe’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Can hope bloom in the shade? Can time give back what it takes away? I once saw the answers to life in your eyes; now I can remember the words to goodbye.
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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.
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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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