The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
STEPHANIE BRIARYou 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.
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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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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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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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