I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
STEPHANIE BRIAROur story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
-
-
You could not keep me fed by throwing me bones and empty promises. I am ashamed to admit how much starving I did before I finally left.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
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.
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 -
The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
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.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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 -
Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
STEPHANIE BRIAR -
Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
STEPHANIE BRIAR






