“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
STEPHANIE BRIARI erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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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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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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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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