Emotion = Energy in motion.
STEPHANIE BRIAROur story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
-
-
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.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
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.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
STEPHANIE BRIAR