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 BRIARCan 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.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because 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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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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 fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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