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”.
STEPHANIE BRIARLove me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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 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 am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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