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 BRIARYou’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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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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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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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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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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