Aspen Matis quote: "I didn’t know if I was brave or reckless."

Living as Wild Child, I could no longer be Debby Parker comfortably — this name that I’d been gi...
ASPEN MATIS You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW

I couldn’t yet piece together the disconnected clues to understand the origin of these lights. To ...
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Chinese proverb says that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. This journey had ...
ASPEN MATIS Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE

He was sprightly and uncommonly good looking, with a quiet, magnanimous confidence that attracted pe...
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The PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it.
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If I come to Aspen for one or two nights, I stay at the St. Regis.
MICHAEL DELL

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
PHILIP GREEN

It felt amazing to make visible my boundaries.

The rumors dissipated, then changed. Event...
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I walked home holding Tom’s hand, not letting it go even as he tottered across a soccer field wher...
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I don’t remember having one conversation with my dad in the three days I was home, but looking bac...
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The freedom of the woods lingered in me here; I felt lighter. I hoped to be changed by it, allow thi...
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I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the begin...
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I wanted him to declare in shock how overlooked and underestimated I had been ever since I was a chi...
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My mom used to tell me, “I don’t like my mother, but I love her.
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I began to lust after our conjoining life.
ASPEN MATIS

Happy people have everything to give.
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Fire is not essential. Fire is warm comfort. From fire, cultures are born.
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In fact, because I liked him so badly, I needed to continue on my course. I was finally becoming the...
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Squatting on my bed–after twelve years of trying and missing, in about two minutes total–I put m...
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She’d taken care of me in all the ways my body needed, but the devastation of my rape had made me ...
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But I couldn’t say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the trut...
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I hoped my solitude would help me reclaim my innocence, remember who I’d been, to find who I wante...
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He hadn’t treated me with the love and compassion I wanted, but I was worthy of that love, and som...
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My path, beyond doubt or denial. I just hadn’t looked toward it. I wasn’t lost. I’d always kno...
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death is not a pretty flower that had almost pricked me. It was not a small annoyance I could simply...
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I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding t...
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I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a...
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Already, this little-walked gigantic trail through my country’s Western wilderness held in my mind...
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From that unremarkable gap in dense northern forest, I could finally see clearly that if I hadn’t ...
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The entire time, he’d only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never ...
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I’d begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full o...
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I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. Th...
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My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child.
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I was safe in this world. This was a place for creatures—I felt I had become more of a creature th...
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I was no longer following a trail.

I was learning to follow myself.
ASPEN MATIS

We aren’t afraid of what we can explain.
ASPEN MATIS

Childhood is a wilderness.
ASPEN MATIS

Loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation.
ASPEN MATIS I don't know if I'm brave.
SACHA BARON COHEN

The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.
ASPEN MATIS

My body was smarter than I was. I was with someone who would never hurt me, and so I finally relaxed...
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My beauty and independence were new for me. They brought me pride and satisfaction; they changed my ...
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I didn’t know what I would do. There was no way I could survive. I stared at my damp tent ceiling,...
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I hated my inability to explain my life on the trail to her and my mother’s inability to comprehen...
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This was a vision of wildness contained – caged. Huge, powerful animals whose wild dignity was str...
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My mother overstated the dangers of the world – invented threats. And so I saw: Starbursts’ hoof...
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I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen.
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Vividly seeing that love had always been my mother's guide, I could finally release my anger—let g...
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When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we lov...
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It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.
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Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add ...
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Absolutely devout in her complete care of my body, she had only taught me to be weak and voiceless. ...
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I made a conscious effort to name my needs and desires. To carefully listen to and accurately identi...
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If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad �...
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If I was going to put myself into a situation wherein I had no one to depend on, I needed to step up...
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I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.
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The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make my...
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For this entire walk, my desire had ashamed me, as if my wanting to be kissed that night mitigated t...
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I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things tha...
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Mothers are programmed to teach the fit. They are unequipped to listen to pleas, to alter their patt...
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I was so much more powerful than anyone knew. I was an animal learning to fight back, instinctively,...
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In the aftermath of destruction, a silence settles – the stillness of fresh loss. People’s cheer...
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A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had brok...
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On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's inf...
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She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew ...
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Walking in solitude fixes nothing, but it leads you to the place where you can identify the malady�...
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And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab m...
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I needed to stop hiding: I was raped. It was time to honestly be exactly who I was. I saw—the sham...
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She told me that my rape was not my fault, that I should feel no shame, that – simple as it may so...
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The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe a...
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In the power of my newfound strength, I saw clearly—even though I’d been empowered to have my ol...
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I'd have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that di...
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You said you didn’t care what I thought. Or what I did. Or if I died, if I’m not mistaken."
SARAH J. MAAS But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, be...
TAMI HOAG

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.
SHANNON A. THOMPSON

I was pulled over in Massachusetts for reckless driving. When brought before the judge, I was asked ...
EMO PHILIPS

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.
FRANK WARREN I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON

I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some o...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Alex got angry at me because he said I didn’t understand how hard it was. And you know what? He wa...
ANDREW KLAVAN I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times...
DARIN STRAUSS I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was ...
JAYDEN HUNTER

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN

I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even kn...
J.D. SALINGER

You know why I want you? I didn’t know I was lost until you found me. I didn’t know what alone w...
JAMIE MCGUIRE

I didn’t feel up to arguing about it, but I was pretty sure if you loved everything you didn’t r...
ADAM REX

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
GAYLE FORMAN

I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
GAYLE FORMAN

I’m trying to decide
Which way to go
I think I made a wrong turn back there somewhere ERYKAH BADU [Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely ...
KRISTIANA GREGORY I nodded. I was ready. In fact I was so ready that if he didn’t do something soon, if he didn’t ...
SARAH ALDERSON

I didn’t know if I could stop her with one blow. But I could whack the crap out of her.
RACHEL VINCENT

he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered ...
GAYLE FORMAN

I didn’t know if I was brave or reckless.

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