We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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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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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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