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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More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
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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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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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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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