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When the Stars Wrote Back QUOTES

When the Stars Wrote Back QUOTES

1 " I don’t want to be another name on the list of angry women in our family. "

― Trista Mateer , When the Stars Wrote Back

2 " In the dream,
whenever I open my mouth
I upset my mother. "

― Trista Mateer , When the Stars Wrote Back

3 " Now you have the audacity to bloom on my doorstep again like some cheap metaphor for spring. You rise from the ashes of my mistrust and you do this unforgivable thing: you still make me go soft in the middle. "

― Trista Mateer , When the Stars Wrote Back

4 " I am not always pretty and I am not always kind.
I will rip apart the next man who tries
to make the mess of me
into something delicate and mild. "

― Trista Mateer , When the Stars Wrote Back

5 " There are two versions of me:
one that forgives like forgiveness is the only thing
they serve here, so I just have to keep ordering it,
and one that doesn’t.
The one that doesn’t
is the one that writes the poems. "

― Trista Mateer , When the Stars Wrote Back