The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
STEPHANIE BRIARIn my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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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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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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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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