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.
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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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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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In my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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