I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
STEPHANIE BRIARIn 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.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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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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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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 pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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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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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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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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