I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
STEPHANIE BRIARThe search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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You could not keep me fed by throwing me bones and empty promises. I am ashamed to admit how much starving I did before I finally left.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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 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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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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