You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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 day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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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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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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 am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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