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“Identities can be held together by narratives, in short, without essences: you don’t get to be called “English” because there’s an essence this label follows; you’re English because our rules determine that you are entitled to the label—that you are connected in the right way with a place called England.”
― Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity

“Some people will leave you. It will have everything to do with you and nothing to do with outside circumstances. You cannot sugarcoat it. You cannot dress it up and make it feel sweet or soft or warm. And it’s going to hurt you. I know your instinct will be to beg them to stay, to unpack their bags for them, to curl up by their wandering feet—but people are going to leave you. That is okay too.”
― Trista Mateer, Honeybee

“Your whole life will change when you learn you can be firm about your boundries, beliefs and choices and still remain calm, loving, compassionate, and kind. Do no harm. Take no shit.”
― Tanya Masse

“I am writing bad poems but I am writing look at that”
― Trista Mateer, girl, isolated: poems, notes on healing, etc.