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”.
STEPHANIE BRIARI would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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