I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
STEPHANIE BRIARStop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.
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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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In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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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 don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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