Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
STEPHANIE BRIARCreatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Some days, my mind will still be in prison, but I will live in spite of it. I unlearn how to swim; I trade my gills for lungs and wings.
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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 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.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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