I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
STEPHANIE BRIARCreatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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 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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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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