I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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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 don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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 erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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