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.
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.
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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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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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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 erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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