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.
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 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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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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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