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.
STEPHANIE BRIARAnxiety 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.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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Can hope bloom in the shade? Can time give back what it takes away? I once saw the answers to life in your eyes; now I can remember the words to goodbye.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us 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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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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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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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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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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