If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
STEPHANIE BRIAROur memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us 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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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