“It doesn’t make sense to keep getting heartbroken when all we wanted to do was love. That we show our best to someone so they can show us their worst. That the more we like someone, the more they ignore us. That the moment you’re ready for love, it eludes you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m tired of falling for the ones who care less, the ones who are not serious, the ones who think I’m only good for a certain amount of time but not forever and I’m tired of falling for the ones who make me feel like it’s my fault.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I’m so sick of reducing lovers to lessons. How to let go. How to stay. How to ask for what the heart wants.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I was carving my name into your side and you were calling me soft, calling me gentle. I do not think you were paying attention.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“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.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I know I deserve a love that won’t make me wait but I was so good at waiting for you.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“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.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“Sometimes I want to apologize for wanting you out loud, like too many people know the reasons I am going to have laugh lines.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“I know it doesn’t sound like it, but this is a love poem, this is a love poem, this is a love poem until it isn’t anymore.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“She subscribes to the bible of mouth to mouth (and gin, and sweat). She makes me want to ransack my own temple.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“I like to think one day we will both be old enough / to find novelty in childish things again. / We will lay down our keys / and pick each other / like stubborn locks.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“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.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“I still have a lot of growing to do and I know there is more room for it in your absence.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com