The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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 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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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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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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