Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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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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