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.
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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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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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 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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“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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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