‘The Dogs I Have Kissed’ is a collection of poetry by Trista Mateer.
It is her second collection and is recognized for her introspective writing style. The novel delves into topics of intimacy and the complex emotions of youth.
Let’s discover some of the top quotes from The Dogs I Have Kissed novel by Trista Mateer.
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The Dogs I Have Kissed Quotes by Trista Mateer
“Sometimes I think I resented you so much it felt like love.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I Swear Somewhere This Works In a parallel universe or another world or a different life, we sit across from each other at the kitchen table and go over the grocery list.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I keep rewriting this poem. I want it to make more sense. I want it to be less honest.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I do not tell her that sometimes it feels like compromising yourself is part of growing up.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I loved her more than i loved you and i’m sorry that you knew it.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I don’t know what it is in me that yearns to be the lifeboat that people throw themselves at when they are drowning.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“My brother talks about car accidents the same way I talk about family. I don’t know when he learned to forgive. I don’t remember teaching him that. I don’t remember learning it myself. His life’s ambition is to be the man my father never was: to step up to the plate, to grow into a firefighter’s uniform or ride shotgun in an ambulance. I am still stuck on the bathroom floor with my resentment.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“Hurt me once: shame on me. Hurt me twice: shame on me. Hurt me three times: shame on me but fuck you. Hurt me four times and we’ll get severed-head biblical.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
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Quotes from The Dogs I Have Kissed
“I Swear Somewhere This Works In a parallel universe or another world or a different life, we sit across from each other at the kitchen table and go over the grocery list. ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I know that I am lucky to be alive at the same time as you. I know that finding you was a cosmic needle in a haystack, a joke of Internet cables and telephone wires. But I also know that you are more afraid of opening up than losing me.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I taste like salt. You taste like toothpaste. There’s no poetry in that. It’s just life.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“It’s just that I am selfish and gas is expensive and it’s hard to tell the difference between wanting to die and just wanting to sink for a while. It’s just that I knew a boy once who said those words to me only when he wanted my undivided attention and my legs spread in the back of his car. It’s just that I thought it was one thing to want to die and another thing to pick up kitchen knives.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“Can we say goodbye again? i miss the way you rip me open. i” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“Like one moment I am whole, but then I hear your voice on the phone and I swear to god three blocks away from here they can smell smoke.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“Tonight I wish I had someone’s body pressed up against mine. I am glad you are not here to see this. I” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
Best Dogs I Have Kissed Quotes
“I’m sorry that I am back and forth, push and pull instead of effortless simplicity.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“Sometimes I think I resented you so much it felt like love. you’re” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“My hands are still shaking from nights spent not knowing how to want you.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“My girl always talks about herself like she’s a graveyard, a place for other people to come and bury what they’ve lost. As much as I want to tell her that she’s wrong, I still find myself crouching in her earth with flowers I’ve brought for someone else. My” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“Girl like a garden you never volunteered to tend. Dirt all tracked into your front hall.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“Tell me that you’ve spent a great deal of time gazing at stars, thinking that sometimes things look better farther apart. That constellations are beautiful only because we have the space to connect the dots.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“I don’t know how to be angry with you, but my pride demands I figure it out. It is so easy to make monsters out of the people I have loved, to pick up a pen and write “THIS IS YOUR FAULT” until the page is full. It is easier to make myself the monster, to snap and bite and run and hide. It is easy to bare my teeth. It is harder to be honest. Nobody here has claws or sharp teeth.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
Famous The Dogs I Have Kissed Quotes
“I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands. ” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
I don’t mean got up on the wrong side of the bed sad; I mean can’t get out of the bed sad. I mean waking up with a pit in my stomach that didn’t come from a cherry. It’s nothing like a peach. If you plant it in the ground, nothing will grow from it.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“And you might curse the one who teaches you what it feels like to cry at the bottom of the shower in the middle of the night, but it is important to learn how to get back up on your own feet and let the wolf in your throat howl at the moon once in a while.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“And now that I am older, I don’t give a damn about sin. I will be the first to cast one.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“She writes a lot about religion for someone who looks out of place in a pew.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“Don’t you ever let another human being tear you apart. Remember that you have claws and teeth, too. Remember that you are better off whole.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“My father was the kind of man who would always pull over at the site of an accident to offer help even if phone calls had already been made, even if people were already there. It was his sole redeeming quality; he ran away only from the messes he made.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
“The poet can’t stand the quiet. She can’t stand the buzzing in her head. The murmur of memory. The poet picks up a book of poetry. It is not her writing but it reads the same way. It is not her story but the ending is similar enough to pass. The poet tries to read a verse out loud and only tastes blood in her mouth. The poet worries she is writing the same poem over and over. No matter what words she puts down, it comes out with a bite.” ~ Trista Mateer (The Dogs I Have Kissed).
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