Emotion = Energy in motion.
STEPHANIE BRIARI pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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In my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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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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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