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”.
STEPHANIE BRIARYour darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
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I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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