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“When people say you cannot love others until you love yourself, they fundamentally misunderstand love. Nothing thrives in isolation.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Identities can be held together by narratives, in short, without essences: you don’t get to be called “English” because there’s an essence this label follows; you’re English because our rules determine that you are entitled to the label—that you are connected in the right way with a place called England.”
― Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

“Your whole life will change when you learn you can be firm about your boundries, beliefs and choices and still remain calm, loving, compassionate, and kind. Do no harm. Take no shit.”
― Tanya Masse

“I am writing bad poems but I am writing look at that”
― Trista Mateer, girl, isolated: poems, notes on healing, etc.