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 BRIARI don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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When 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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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 count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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Can hope bloom in the shade? Can time give back what it takes away? I once saw the answers to life in your eyes; now I can remember the words to goodbye.
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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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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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