In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
STEPHANIE BRIARIf we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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Anxiety 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.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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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.
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