He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because 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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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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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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