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.
STEPHANIE BRIARCreatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the 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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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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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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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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