I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
STEPHANIE BRIARLight finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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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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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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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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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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of 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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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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