I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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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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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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