Aspen Matis Quotes
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Aspen Matis Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.
I walked home holding Tom's hand, not letting it go even as he tottered across a soccer field where there was nothing that could hurt him.
I'd believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others - but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.
She was my mirror image, slightly distorted, flipped, older, larger, more able to coexist with a pack of men. I'd be their pawn. She was their queen.
I was safe in this world. This was a place for creatures - I felt I had become more of a creature than a girl. I could handle myself in the wild.
Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album.
My body was smarter than I was. I was with someone who would never hurt me, and so I finally relaxed.
She wrote something down. She held her eyes firm on the pad. "Marijuana is a hallucinogen," she said softly.
These tools were my parents' way of saying: What you're doing is important. We support it. We want to help you find your way.
Vividly seeing that love had always been my mother's guide, I could finally release my anger - let go of it there in the woods - and move past it.
I told myself that my separation from Dash was necessary. I couldn't wreck my hike for anyone, not Dash, no one. I knew this now.
I was promising myself strength.
I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.
I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.
I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.
I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love.
After all this time questioning whether I could trust myself, my instinct had proven right - I'd found a path in pathless woods.
I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw.