In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
STEPHANIE BRIARThe pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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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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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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