I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
STEPHANIE BRIARI count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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 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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.
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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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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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