Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
STEPHANIE BRIARYou’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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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 erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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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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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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