Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
STEPHANIE BRIARStanding in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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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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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.
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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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