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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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