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.
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 fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
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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 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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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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