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 am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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 would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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