In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
STEPHANIE BRIARWe usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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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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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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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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