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Trista Mateer Quotes

Total quotes: 33
“See what time and distance does to us? How it makes us soft and forgetful?”
— Trista Mateer, We Spent Summers Working Together
Tagged: Poetry, Forgetting
“I still have a lot of growing to do
and I know there is more room for it
in your absence.”
— Trista Mateer, Honeybee: a collection of poems about letting go
Tagged: Growing, Love, Lost Love
“I still remember you
as a little girl
who overwaters plants
because she doesn’t know
when to stop giving.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Giving, Giving Too Much, Memories
“I stop masturbating because it makes me cry.
I make bad art and keep it to myself. I make bad art and
share it with the internet.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Breakups, Sad, Heartbreak
“I know it doesn’t sound like it,
but this is a love poem, this is a love poem,
this is a love poem
until it isn’t anymore.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Love Poem, Poetry, Love
“I can’t remember why we stopped writing love letters and started crying drunkenly into the phone.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Falling Out Of Love, Heartbreak, Sadness
“I know I deserve a love that won’t make me wait but I was so good at waiting for you.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Waiting For Love, Love, The Love You Deserve
“I’m sorry I called myself a dog.

I’m not sorry I called you a coward.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Apologies, Moving On, Healing, Poetry
“Tell me that you’re sorry. That you know we’re not stars. We’re just people. Tell me that you know there’s nothing poetic about plane tickets. Tell me that you want to buy them anyway.”
— Trista Mateer, Ask Me To Stay
Tagged: Poetry, Apologies, Heartbreak, Love, Relationships, romance, Nostalgia, Quote of the Moment
“here’s to being your own therapist and still needing a therapist, here’s to the stories you keep to yourself”
— Trista Mateer, Here's To The Romantic Life Of The Poet
Tagged: Poetry, Poet, Life, Nostalgia
“I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands.”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: Love, Toxic Love
“Sometimes I want to apologize for wanting you out loud,
like too many people know the reasons
I am going to have laugh lines.”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: Apologies, Memories, crushes, Love
“My hands are still shaking from
nights spent not knowing
how to want you.”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: crushes, Attraction, Wanting People
“I am not sorry it’s over, but I think my hands might always ache for the symmetry of yours and I hope you understand that now as well as you used to.”
— Trista Mateer, Honeybee: a collection of poems about letting go
Tagged: Letting Go, When Love Is Over
“Don’t misunderstand me:
the mess here is not romantic.
It’s not even logical.
Survival rarely is.”
— Trista Mateer, FRENCH FRIES & OTHER GREAT WAYS TO EAT POTATOES
Tagged: romance, Survival, Poetry
“The best part about this city
is that it is so big, you can break my heart in it
and never have to worry about seeing me
on your morning train.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Heartbreak, Nostalgia, Missing People, Broken Hearts
“It is hard to keep trying to fix something convinced it is not broken.
It is hard to love a heart that is not always open.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Fixing Things, Fixing Love, Love, Broken Hearts
“I have been told that girls always fall
for men like their fathers,
but I found it a hard concept to grasp
when he was always gone
and I grew up on radio static
and blackberry preserves. ”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: Poetry, Fathers, Relationships, Father/Daughter, Abandonment
“I have a postcard mouth.
All it ever says is:
wish you were here.”
— Trista Mateer, Wish You Were Here
Tagged: Missing You, Poetry, Love Poem, Exes
“It’s just my hard edges and your hard edges
but I swear if we touch enough
we’ll be as smooth as skipping stones.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Imperfections
“I like to think one day we will both be old enough / to find novelty in childish things again. / We will lay down our keys / and pick each other / like stubborn locks.”
— Trista Mateer, Honeybee
Tagged: Love, Finally in Love
“She subscribes to the bible of mouth to mouth (and gin, and sweat). She makes me want to ransack my own temple.”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: Attraction, crushes, Hot, Poetry, Bible, Love
“At this point it's not about finding someone
to replace you. I have spread my love
all over the place.”
— Trista Mateer, Honeybee
Tagged: Finding Love, Nostalgia, Heartbreak
“You are not defined by the people who walk away from you.”
— Trista Mateer, Honeybee
Tagged: People Who Leave, Lost Love, Heartbreak
“She does not remind me of anything. Everything reminds me of her.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Missing People, Memories, Haunted, Nostalgia, Exes
“I said I’d never write another poem about you,
but everything is a metaphor for the way that we left each other.
Birds flying south for the winter. Rivers running to the sea.
The moon stuck struggling in its orbit
and never really going anywhere
at all.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Lost Love, Heartbreak
“Today I accidentally told someone that I love you.”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: Love, crushes, Secret
“I want to kiss you and feel like I am growing.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Kissing, Love, real love, The Love You Deserve
“I'm not sure I even know how to let you go.”
— Trista Mateer, Honeybee: a collection of poems about letting go
Tagged: Letting Go, Losing People, Sadness, Heartbreak
“It is so easy to make monsters out of the people I have loved.”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: Love, monsters, Toxic Love, Poetry
“can we say goodbye again? i miss the way you rip me open.”
— Trista Mateer, The Dogs I Have Kissed
Tagged: Breaking Up, Breakups, Heartbreak, Goodbyes
“My heart looks
like a bruise and I
almost don't mind.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Heartbreak, Pain, Memories, Love
“I slept 
incredibly well
before I met you.”
— Trista Mateer, Tumblr
Tagged: Missing People, Sleepless, Nostalgia, Heartbreak
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