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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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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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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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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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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