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 BRIARIn the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because 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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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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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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