Some days, my mind will still be in prison, but I will live in spite of it. I unlearn how to swim; I trade my gills for lungs and wings.
STEPHANIE BRIARThe pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I 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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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