Quotes by : Aspen Matis

Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one....

I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning....

It finally had to.I understood that it wouldn’t be easy, it would be very hard; I’d need to resist....

It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction.

I'd crossed a border—Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her.

The night Junior stayed, my right to myself was taken from me in a way that had felt more final than....

The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and....

My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child.

After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing.

Childhood is a wilderness.