Emotion = Energy in motion.
STEPHANIE BRIARI was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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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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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”.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of 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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