Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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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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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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