Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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