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.
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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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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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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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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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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In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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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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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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