I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
STEPHANIE BRIARThe search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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 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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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 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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