I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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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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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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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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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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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 erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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