When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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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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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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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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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I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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