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.
STEPHANIE BRIARI don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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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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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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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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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