Natalie

“every dream I have about kissing you
ends with blood on my hands.”
― Trista Mateer, [redacted]

“Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition. I had wanted to become something—here was the point—only because I was afraid that Lila would become someone and I would stay behind. My becoming was a becoming in her wake. I had to start again to become, but for myself, as an adult, outside of her.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“For everyone I meet with your name
I'm sorry.”
― Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“I wonder what of me there is in you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War