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 BRIAR
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.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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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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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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He’ll keep somedaying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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