I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
STEPHANIE BRIARWhen 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.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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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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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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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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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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