Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
STEPHANIE BRIARIn the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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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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I would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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