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Aphrodite Made Me Do It
by Trista Mateer
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Quotes that stood out to me:
Aphrodite Airs Her Grievances
1. I belong to no one. THey never wrote that part down.
2. Regardless of whether you desire it, love is what sits at the core of the world.
The Poet Airs Her Grievances
3. I'm afraid of saying not all men and then having my face held down in the dirt by another man.
4. I'm afraid of cisgender white men.
Aphrodite Speaks On Love
5. 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 friend and the family you find with them / love has little to do with blood relations . and more to do with you choose to bleed for / it's okay to walk away from things that don't feel right / your love will always look like everyone else's / you will not always grow it same way / you will not always express it the same way / people can love each other and still be bad for each other / people can love each other and still be incompatible / love never means you have to stay . it means your heart is open / fight to keep it that way
The Poet Speaks On Love
6. It's important not to isolate yourself when you're healing but it's also important to be able to sit quietly with yourself.
Aphrodite Sings of War
7. In troy
they fought
over Helen
like children
but Achilles
mourned Patroclus
the way a soul
mourns a body.
8. When you fight for what is just, prepare to meet opposition. Remember, it is the good in us that stands in front of what needs protecting. There will always be reasons to back down but there will always be more to push forward.
9. Men wrote the myths down and called them history, and time has dragged them further from 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.
10. The world was full of men who called themselves heroes for crossing boundaries, claiming bodies like prizes.
The Poet Sings of War
11. 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.
12. Accepting this body
did not mean convincing myself
that is was beautiful; it meant
giving myself permission to exist regardless
Rising
13. It is never too late
to realize
you don't want to be
on the path
you're walking.
You can never go back
but you can always
chart a new course.
14. 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.
the know you are strong
than what has hurt you.
to know that you will triumph.
If you're reading this, take care of yourself <3
Aphrodite Airs Her Grievances
1. I belong to no one. THey never wrote that part down.
2. Regardless of whether you desire it, love is what sits at the core of the world.
The Poet Airs Her Grievances
3. I'm afraid of saying not all men and then having my face held down in the dirt by another man.
4. I'm afraid of cisgender white men.
Aphrodite Speaks On Love
5. 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 friend and the family you find with them / love has little to do with blood relations . and more to do with you choose to bleed for / it's okay to walk away from things that don't feel right / your love will always look like everyone else's / you will not always grow it same way / you will not always express it the same way / people can love each other and still be bad for each other / people can love each other and still be incompatible / love never means you have to stay . it means your heart is open / fight to keep it that way
The Poet Speaks On Love
6. It's important not to isolate yourself when you're healing but it's also important to be able to sit quietly with yourself.
Aphrodite Sings of War
7. In troy
they fought
over Helen
like children
but Achilles
mourned Patroclus
the way a soul
mourns a body.
8. When you fight for what is just, prepare to meet opposition. Remember, it is the good in us that stands in front of what needs protecting. There will always be reasons to back down but there will always be more to push forward.
9. Men wrote the myths down and called them history, and time has dragged them further from 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.
10. The world was full of men who called themselves heroes for crossing boundaries, claiming bodies like prizes.
The Poet Sings of War
11. 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.
12. Accepting this body
did not mean convincing myself
that is was beautiful; it meant
giving myself permission to exist regardless
Rising
13. It is never too late
to realize
you don't want to be
on the path
you're walking.
You can never go back
but you can always
chart a new course.
14. 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.
the know you are strong
than what has hurt you.
to know that you will triumph.
If you're reading this, take care of yourself <3