Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
STEPHANIE BRIARStanding in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
STEPHANIE BRIAR