I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
STEPHANIE BRIARAs 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”.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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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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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In my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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