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.
STEPHANIE BRIARI was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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