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”.
STEPHANIE BRIARHe’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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