I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
STEPHANIE BRIARWhen you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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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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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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 the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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