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.
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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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