He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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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.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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I would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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