I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
STEPHANIE BRIARLast night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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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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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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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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