Annie

“Wouldn’t have to hate yourself if you were dead, though her brain counters.”
― Trista Mateer, girl, isolated: poems, notes on healing, etc.

“That is okay. It is okay to leave. It is okay to feel smothered by the weight of a life you didn't want or a relationship that doesn't taste the way you thought it would. It does not make you hard or disagreeable or unreasonable.”
― Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“It took me too long to realize it was not romantic(, tender, or healthy) to love someone else more than I loved myself.”
― Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“I read somewhere that it's okay to miss people even if you don't want them in your life anymore;
and I hope that's true.”
― Trista Mateer, Honeybee