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But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was. — Aspen Matis

The implication: I had hallucinated a rape. — Aspen Matis

I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough. — Aspen Matis

The small word, "No." I'd see its deity. — Aspen Matis

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard. — Aspen Matis

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. — Aspen Matis

Happy people have everything to give. — Aspen Matis

It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying. — Aspen Matis

The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire. — Aspen Matis

I needed only to allow myself to know what I already knew. — Aspen Matis

Loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation. — Aspen Matis

I didn't know if I was brave or reckless. — Aspen Matis

Fire is not essential. Fire is warm comfort. From fire, cultures are born. — Aspen Matis

I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic. — Aspen Matis

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. — Aspen Matis

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. — Aspen Matis

I was beginning to feel compassion for myself. — Aspen Matis

We aren't afraid of what we can explain. — Aspen Matis

I began to lust after our conjoining life. — Aspen Matis

When I felt strongly I would say it strongly. — Aspen Matis

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. — Aspen Matis

After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing. — Aspen Matis

Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album. — Aspen Matis

My body was smarter than I was. I was with someone who would never hurt me, and so I finally relaxed. — Aspen Matis

She wrote something down. She held her eyes firm on the pad. "Marijuana is a hallucinogen," she said softly. — Aspen Matis

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to. — Aspen Matis

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. — Aspen Matis

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. — Aspen Matis

I wanted to come close to fierce wild things. They seemed prehistoric, rare and sacred. — Aspen Matis

I realized she was finding Junior innocent of rape. That meant that I was guilty of lying. — Aspen Matis

I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen. — Aspen Matis

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. — Aspen Matis

It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction. — Aspen Matis

This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation. — Aspen Matis

As if violence could make light. Maybe violence could make light. — Aspen Matis

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. — Aspen Matis

I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality. — Aspen Matis

My mom used to tell me, "I don't like my mother, but I love her. — Aspen Matis

Childhood is a wilderness. — Aspen Matis

I flushed - this time not in shame - but in rage. — Aspen Matis

The PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it. — Aspen Matis

My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child. — Aspen Matis

I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love. — Aspen Matis

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes — Aspen Matis

After all this time questioning whether I could trust myself, my instinct had proven right - I'd found a path in pathless woods. — Aspen Matis

I was no longer following a trail.

I was learning to follow myself. — Aspen Matis

I'd crossed a border -

Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her. — Aspen Matis

In lovesickness we had found a common language. — Aspen Matis

I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw. — Aspen Matis

Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity - a sacred thing. — Aspen Matis