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.
STEPHANIE BRIARTrauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Can hope bloom in the shade? Can time give back what it takes away? I once saw the answers to life in your eyes; now I can remember the words to goodbye.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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