Aphrodite Made Me Do It Quotes

“People expect all stories of abuse
to be loud and angry
but they're not.

Sometimes they're quiet and cruel
and swept under the rug.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I wrote my own story
And still said all the wrong things.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“love has little to do with blood relations and more to do with who you choose to bleed for”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“What brings us together will always be more powerful than what keeps us apart.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Regardless of whether you desire it, love is what sits at the core of the world. It is stronger than greed and hate and jealousy and pain. What brings us together will always be more powerful than what keeps us apart.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“The thing about embracing your own chaos is that it never becomes clear when you need to stop.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I'm trying to remember to make room in my life for the person I am now, not just the people I have been.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I’m afraid of driving and wanting to crash on purpose.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I’m still trying to figure out who I am alone so that I know who I am in front of other people.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“You are not required to be small.
You are not required to be pleasant.
You are not required to be conventional.
You are not required to be accommodating.
You are not required to be submissive.
You are not required to be merciful.
You are not required to be quiet.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“It is simple. You believe in the triumphs of love despite growing up in full view of its defeat because you are brave.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“They made a monster
of Medusa as well.
Hated how loud
her trauma was.
Couldn’t believe
she had the audacity
not to take it lying down.
they made a war-ground
of her body
so she made one
of theirs.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“My pain has always deserved a voice and I will not deny it that, but I won't devote my life to it either.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Not all gods are born.
Plenty of us rise.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“In Troy they fought over Helen like children but Achilles mourned Patroclus the way a soul mourns a body.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Even a match remembers the moment before it was struck.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Let me leave you with this: your life is short and all the more precious for it. I do not seek to tell you how to live, only to live at all. to not fear the day. to know you are stronger than what has hurt you. to know that you will triumph.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“She says, “I thought you weren’t looking for love.” I say, “That doesn’t mean I’m not hoping it will find me.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Men said she was the perfect vessel for evil to enter the world, but men are the ones who wrote the stories. Men wrote the myths down and called them history, and time has dragged them further form the truth. Pandora's jar became a box. Eve's pomegranate, an apple. All the details change but one: it is a woman with her hand on the door to Hell.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Your abuser's past does not absolve them of their abuse. Their depression does not absolve them of their abuse. Your relationship with them does not absolve them of their abuse. How long you've known them does not absolve them of their abuse. Your love for them does not absolve them of their abuse.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I'm afraid of never loving someone as much as I loved the last person who broke my heart.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I’m afraid of not unlearning the bad things my
parents taught me.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Aphrodite tells me that love is like wine. If your cup is already full and you try to add more, it ill just spill onto the carpet. Some people try and try and just stain everything. Their fingers are purple with want”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I had to step back for a while to get to know myself again but now I don’t know how to step forward.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“I treat my greatest loves like seeds. I put them down and I seldom look back at what has grown behind me.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“They wanted you to believe that love is weak, that you cannot curse and kiss with the same mouth. They wanted you to believe that the root of love is romance, soft and wide-eyed. See what they did to my stories? My Temples? My statues? Regardless o whether you desire it, love is what sits at the core of the world. It is stronger than greed and hate and jealousy and pain. What brings us together will always be more powerful than what keeps us apart.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“They took my anger.
They took my voice.
They took my story.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“Like everyone called a woman, they say I had no childhood. They say I rose from the sea fully formed, forced to bear the weight of other people’s desire. It’s not the truth, but it’s close enough.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“The world was full of men who called themselves heroes for crossing boundaries, claiming bodies like prizes. The world still is.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It

“love that doesn’t last is still important / not everyone is meant to stay forever / love teaches lessons / love is more than the lessons it teaches / it does not have to be heavy / it does not have to be requited to be worthwhile / no one owes you their time or their affection / cherish your friends and the family you find with them / love has little to do with blood relations / and more to do with who you choose to bleed for / it’s okay to walk away from things that don’t feel right”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It