Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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Some days, my mind will still be in prison, but I will live in spite of it. I unlearn how to swim; I trade my gills for lungs and wings.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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