Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
STEPHANIE BRIARThe day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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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.
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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 am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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