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”.
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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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“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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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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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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