“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
“I read somewhere that it’s okay to miss people even if you don’t want them in your life anymore; and I hope that’s true. I hope everything I feel is okay.”— Trista Mateer, amazon.com
“I stop masturbating because it makes me cry. I make bad art and keep it to myself. I make bad art and share it with the internet.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“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.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between...”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I’ve had a lot of people who said they loved me, treat me like shit. I wonder which one of us had the more fucked up definition.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“To all the women lying in bed unable to sleep because of ghosts of past relationships or bad decisions haunting them at night. You are not alone.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“I like that we have our own language It requires no words. One look and you know what I’m thinking, I hate and love that there’s no hiding who I am from you.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“The mouth that kissed me the night before was now rapidly bringing me to tears.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“Maybe those broken pieces I keep denying are attracting the wrong souls. Who linger way too long trying to take away whatever light I have left and I let them.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“I always wondered why it was so easy For people to leave. What I should have questioned was 'Why I wanted so badly for them to stay.'”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“He was never really mine and in truth he was never really hers either. The only thing he belonged to was his desires and anyone who would fulfill them.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“To think I turned the better parts of me against one another, all for the sake of keeping you.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“I hope when you open the door to find that I’m no longer there. That for one second you sit where I sat and contemplate whether you ever deserved someone like me.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“There comes a point where there aren’t any tears left. When we have lost what we’ve held dear all that’s left are the memories.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“You would think I’m the one who suffered here but that’s only ’cause you haven’t figured out what you lost.”— Samantha King, amazon.com
“I regret meeting you would be a lie. The best thing for me was removing you from my life.”— Samantha King, amazon.com