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.
STEPHANIE BRIARI erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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