The Moon and Her Sisters Quotes

“My mother is soil and rain,
clay, ash, sand, sun and moonlight.
My mother is a weeping willow—
strong, daring, dripping.
My mother is oceans so salty and wild
she can consume whole cities—
but, mostly, she chooses to be calm turquoise,
washing softly over toes in sand.
She is vast—
some places un-navigated.
She is offering, felt without words, sacred, and restful.
She grows life.

—mother/Mother Earth”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“Beauty cannot possibly be youth alone:
that is like earth stopping at autumn and saying
that is enough.

—I want to see all of you”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“How is the ocean not enraged,
swelling—
how is it not furious with grief:
we have drowned it in plastic,
its waves are no longer its own.
How does it survive this,
blistered by our carelessness?
We are drops of the ocean:
why can’t we see this?

—when plastic outnumbers fish”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“Sing hallelujah
because your body is
unmatched.
And, because of that,
it is keenly desirable—
a rare, one of kind
created by the Artist herself.”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“a green juice
is not self-care
if it’s meant to
starve not
nourish.

—moderation”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“I just wanted to remind us:
every shape and way of being
is tempting,
not because it’s your job to be
desirable,
but because the form you come in
was ordered up by God
and that’s
madly rousing.”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“I am not ruined
by my expectations of myself.
I am ruined by what I’ve imagined
are yours.

—let go of what they think”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“Don’t dig
for your purpose—
let it drop
from the heavens
and fall in your lap.

—you can’t hunt your way to it”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“I might have
woven myself to you
in this bed
but my body is still not your body
as much as it is the earth—
its water, its soil, its air,
its children
birthed from seed to become our fruit.

—intimacy”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“Starving (adj.)—
When the only self-talk
you gorge yourself on is
ugly.

—your beauty is so lush you could feast on it”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“Why did you leave all the others?
he asked me.
They weren’t soft enough.

—redefining masculinity”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“Only between us,
we are everything,
and that is our beauty.”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters