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”.
STEPHANIE BRIARIt quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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