The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
STEPHANIE BRIARYou 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.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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