Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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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.
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