In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
STEPHANIE BRIARSome 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.
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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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 the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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