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 BRIARThe search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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 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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Can hope bloom in the shade? Can time give back what it takes away? I once saw the answers to life in your eyes; now I can remember the words to goodbye.
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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 search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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 am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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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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