Trista Mateer

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Trista Mateer is a writer and poet. She won the Goodreads Choice Award in 2015 for poetry with The Dogs I Have Kisse

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“It is hard to keep trying to fix something convinced it is not broken. It is hard to love a heart that is not always open.”

Tagged: Fixing Things, Fixing Love, Love, Broken Hearts

“The best part about this city is that it is so big, you can break my heart in it and never have to worry about seeing me on your morning train.”

Tagged: Heartbreak, Nostalgia, Missing People, Broken Hearts

“I’m sorry I called myself a dog. I’m not sorry I called you a coward.”

Tagged: Apologies, Moving On, Healing, Poetry

“I’m sorry for the poems. All the shouting I did about your mouth.”

Tagged: Sorrys, Apologies, Poetry, Writing

“We outgrew each other in angry uncoordinated ways.”

Tagged: Moving On, Letting Go, growing apart from people

“I’m so sick of reducing lovers to lessons. How to let go. How to stay. How to ask for what the heart wants.”

Tagged: Love, heart, What the Heart wants, Life Lessons, Love Lessons

“You’re not my biggest heartbreak anymore. What a delicate relief to both of us.”

Tagged: Heartbreak, Moving On, Poetry

“I slept incredibly well before I met you.”

Tagged: Missing People, Sleepless, Nostalgia, Heartbreak

“I’m twenty-three and I still don’t own my own dishes. Last month, I lived entirely off of paper plates. Say you’ll come home with me anyway.”

Tagged: Love, love no matter what, Poetry

“My heart looks like a bruise and I almost don't mind.”

Tagged: Heartbreak, Pain, Memories, Love

“My love is a pair of scissors I keep begging you not to run with.”

Tagged: Love, Broken Love, Toxic Love, Poetry

“I want to kiss you and feel like I am growing.”

Tagged: Kissing, Love, real love, The Love You Deserve

“I know I deserve a love that won’t make me wait but I was so good at waiting for you.”

Tagged: Waiting For Love, Love, The Love You Deserve

“I can’t remember why we stopped writing love letters and started crying drunkenly into the phone.”

Tagged: Falling Out Of Love, Heartbreak, Sadness

“i like to tell myself that i wasn’t really in love with you but even on the months i forget to pay my credit card bills, i still remember to check your horoscope.”

Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Memories, Nostalgia

“I said I’d never write another poem about you, but everything is a metaphor for the way that we left each other. Birds flying south for the winter. Rivers running to the sea. The moon stuck struggling in its orbit and never really going anywhere at all.”

Tagged: Lost Love, Heartbreak

“I still remember you as a little girl who overwaters plants because she doesn’t know when to stop giving.”

Tagged: Giving, Giving Too Much, Memories

“I just want to leave your name on a page somewhere and never need to come back to it.”

Tagged: Leaving Love, Moving On, Healing

“It’s just my hard edges and your hard edges but I swear if we touch enough we’ll be as smooth as skipping stones.”

Tagged: Love, Imperfections

“I don’t know how to exist properly in the same space as someone I don’t love anymore.”

Tagged: Love, Existing, Falling Out Of Love

Trista Mateer

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