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.
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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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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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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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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I would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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