You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
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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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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.
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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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 day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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