Tristamateer Quotes

seafoam*
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July 25, 2018 5:25pm UTC

you tried to talk about it
once, afterwards.
you named it
and laid down until it was over.
you named it
and you watched people
walk away from you.
you named it
and felt ashamed.
you still said its name.
— t.m.

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seafoam*
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February 12, 2018 8:37pm UTC

A LIST OF THINGS THAT HURT
1. Calls that go to voicemail
2. Seeing a stranger who looks like you
3. Fresh flowers in cemeteries
4. Dreams in which you’re still alive
5. Waking up from them

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seafoam*
posted a quote
February 12, 2018 8:15pm UTC

if you need it, i forgive you
FOR WHATEVER YOU NEED FORGIVENESS FOR.

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seafoam*
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November 1, 2017 7:29pm UTC

Funny how things can tell you exactly what they are and you’ll still find a way to be surprised and disappointed later.

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seafoam*
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October 22, 2017 8:32pm UTC

Yesterday, I woke up from a nap to a world without you in it. I thought it was a joke, but there was very little setup... I’m never going to get the punchline, but I keep trying to.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
September 22, 2017 8:14pm UTC

Do you hear me?
All that wanting,
all that aching,
all that capacity for love:
it never belonged to you in the first place.

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seafoam*
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August 31, 2017 6:56pm UTC

“
Is this okay,
is this okay,
is this okay
or does it
make me weak?
Trista Mateer

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seafoam*
posted a quote
August 19, 2017 7:03pm UTC

Do you think moons really love the planets they circle around...?
I’ve been thinking: maybe they’re just stuck. Maybe they don’t know how to let go either. Maybe “gravitational pull” is just code for “I don’t know how to be away from you” — but on a massive scale.
Like, “Baby, I know we don’t work together. I just forget how to be a moon when you’re not around.”
I forget how to be a moon when you’re not around, but I’m getting the hang of it. I’m working it out.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
July 24, 2017 7:24pm UTC

I'm in love with my anger
my war-won body
tense and vicious.

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seafoam*
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July 24, 2017 7:17pm UTC

She says if people change, she doesn’t understand why names get stuck. She calls it false advertisement...
(T.M.)

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seafoam*
posted a quote
July 18, 2017 8:26pm UTC

“
But now your heart
feels like a fisherman's net.
It wants to keep everything
that gets caught inside of it.
Trista Mateer

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seafoam*
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July 15, 2017 7:43pm UTC

My heart is a monument to absence. A postcard that says: YOU WERE HERE ONCE, BUT YOU’RE NOT ANYMORE.

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seafoam*
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April 30, 2017 3:19am UTC

“
the past is a graveyard
you rob when you get lonely.
every plot is empty tonight.
— Trista Mateer

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 31, 2016 3:30pm UTC

You haven't even said goodbye yet
but I can already feel my heart
closing itself up like a fist,
like something that wants to strike out
like something that wants to stay small
like something that wants to hurt you
but is only going to hurt me.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 31, 2016 3:17pm UTC

Did you know that when a star implodes,
for a few days, it can be brighter than an entire galaxy?
I still have light in my eyes from the way that you left me;
I still wait for my core to collapse like a black hole
and suck everything into it
when I meet someone else with your name.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 31, 2016 3:05pm UTC

The first time I drove through Australian bushland,
I saw scorched trees twisted up towards the sky;
everything was black and brown and grey
and green.
There are plants here that need fire to germinate,
to crack their seeds, to grow, to change.
Heat thrust through the soil can stir up
things that were lost years ago;
everything comes back after a bushfire.
I could start over after you.
—Gum Trees

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 31, 2016 2:50pm UTC

Boys are always trying to fix me,
taking me home like a weekend project,
all pursed lips and furrowed brows
when I don't snap out of it with a kiss.
Approach me
like I weave caution tape into my hair.
I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire
until you learn to stop coming after me
with your hands.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 31, 2016 2:41pm UTC

You have more f.ucking fault lines than California,
but I'd still settle somewhere along your coast
if you'd take the time to stop shifting for a moment.
I'm not afraid of the ground moving under my feet,
but I'm a little worried about your tectonic plates
grinding up against mine in a way
that sends people running for door frames.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 31, 2016 2:31pm UTC

The smell of your hair puts my stomach in knots.
I want to lay roses at your feet.
I want to pray at the church of your hands.
I want to thank you for every awful thing you ever did to me.
No one will ever be able to knock the wind out of me again.
Not like that.
Not like you.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 30, 2016 6:07pm UTC

I still remember you
as a little girl who overwaters plants because she doesn’t
know when to stop
giving.
Image is from weheartit, photographer unknown.

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