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.
STEPHANIE BRIARWhen you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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