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The implication: I had hallucinated a rape.
— Aspen Matis
The small word, "No." I'd see its deity.
— Aspen Matis
The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.
— Aspen Matis
I walked home holding Tom's hand, not letting it go even as he tottered across a soccer field where there was nothing that could hurt him.
— Aspen Matis
Happy people have everything to give.
— Aspen Matis
It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.
— Aspen Matis
The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.
— Aspen Matis
Loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation.
— Aspen Matis
I didn't know if I was brave or reckless.
— Aspen Matis
I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic.
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I'd believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others - but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.
— Aspen Matis
She was my mirror image, slightly distorted, flipped, older, larger, more able to coexist with a pack of men. I'd be their pawn. She was their queen.
— Aspen Matis
I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.
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We aren't afraid of what we can explain.
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I began to lust after our conjoining life.
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When I felt strongly I would say it strongly.
— Aspen Matis
I was safe in this world. This was a place for creatures - I felt I had become more of a creature than a girl. I could handle myself in the wild.
— Aspen Matis
Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album.
— Aspen Matis
My body was smarter than I was. I was with someone who would never hurt me, and so I finally relaxed.
— Aspen Matis
She wrote something down. She held her eyes firm on the pad. "Marijuana is a hallucinogen," she said softly.
— Aspen Matis
These tools were my parents' way of saying: What you're doing is important. We support it. We want to help you find your way.
— Aspen Matis
Vividly seeing that love had always been my mother's guide, I could finally release my anger - let go of it there in the woods - and move past it.
— Aspen Matis
I wanted to come close to fierce wild things. They seemed prehistoric, rare and sacred.
— Aspen Matis
I realized she was finding Junior innocent of rape. That meant that I was guilty of lying.
— Aspen Matis
I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen.
— Aspen Matis
I told myself that my separation from Dash was necessary. I couldn't wreck my hike for anyone, not Dash, no one. I knew this now.
— Aspen Matis
It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction.
— Aspen Matis
I was promising myself strength.
I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it. — Aspen Matis
I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it. — Aspen Matis
I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.
— Aspen Matis
Childhood is a wilderness.
— Aspen Matis
I flushed - this time not in shame - but in rage.
— Aspen Matis
I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love.
— Aspen Matis
There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes
— Aspen Matis
After all this time questioning whether I could trust myself, my instinct had proven right - I'd found a path in pathless woods.
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I'd crossed a border -
Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her. — Aspen Matis
Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her. — Aspen Matis
In lovesickness we had found a common language.
— Aspen Matis
I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw.
— Aspen Matis