The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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 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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of 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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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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