Emotion = Energy in motion.
STEPHANIE BRIARAnxiety 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.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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