I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much 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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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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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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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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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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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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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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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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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 the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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