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.
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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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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I would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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