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 BRIARDo I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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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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 pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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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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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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