I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
STEPHANIE BRIARStop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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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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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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