Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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You 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.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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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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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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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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