62 Quotes From 'Somewhere On A Highway' That Will Both Break And Heal Your Heart

“Maybe you leave because you long to know. Maybe you leave not because of longing but because you must. Or maybe you leave simply to find the answers you’ve held inside of you all along.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I wanted to lay in a field of grass and let the sky swallow me whole. I wanted anywhere but here. I wanted more. I wanted more.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“Who would have known just one taste could set my heart on fire?”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“Only when the sun goes down do we allow ourselves to dream to imagine our hips swaying in the moonlight of another city, another town, hands held by a stranger who will soon steal a piece of our soul under that dark sky.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I should have known your kiss would taste like rebellion. I should have known those lips would hurt and heal.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I kissed and kissed until I could almost forget how restless I’d become.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“Maybe our bodies are just hearts with legs and that’s why we’re so quick to run.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I was dizzy in love with the idea of love so much so I expected boys who were not men to chase me when what I really wanted was to chase everything that didn’t taste like home.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“The highway slipped past our quiet tires, streetlights specks in the distance. I lost all sense of time, out of place from my suburban town, seeking solace in our silence. As we drove on, I watched the stars their quiet elegance magical, twinkling, unafraid. And on that unfamiliar highway I didn’t f…”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“You and I were never meant to last too many elbows, too much skin two bodies intertwined in beds but never dreams.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“Tonight I’ll drive until I run out of gas chasing the sun.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I don’t want my life to fit in a little box, to bend, to mold, to be a certain shape. I want to lean my head back and take in the sky and all its colors. I want to stick out my tongue and lick the fresh rain. I want to squish my toes into dirt and lay in the green grass and close my eyes. I don’t wa…”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“Run wild with me. Taste the flavors of the earth on your tongue, drink in the sky, the sounds, the smells. I cannot be rooted to four walls, one town.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“She felt the interstate shift under her feet each step, a promise of who she would one day become.”

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“You are time. We move together passionate lovers. Each other’s desire, each other’s demise.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“He kissed me and I stared up at the sky, drinking in the midnight black. The night seemed endless, I wanted to hold the stars in the palm of my hand. I wanted to drink the moment in and commit it to poetry. I didn’t want to ever forget.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“He kissed me, and I thought of all the names of the constellations, all the patterns I had yet to trace, all the world I had yet to feel underneath my feet.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“The roads called at night, always long and lonesome and winding. She always drove with one hand on the wheel, the windows rolled down, the gas pressed just a little too far. This was her way of running when her legs couldn’t carry her fast enough.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I tried to kiss away the emptiness screaming ‘I love you’ into the spaces as if I could fill him, us. He was my first experience with transience— searching for a residence in the impermanent.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I can close my eyes and still remember the way the earth smelled like gravel and sunburnt skin, the cheap gas-station vodka burning my throat, a boy’s hand on the small of my back, the black, black sky watching my every move.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“Whenever I was dizzy and drunk on freedom and loneliness I would look up to right myself again. And the sky, those roads, these stars would guide my tired heart home.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“But in all the white, the steady rhythm of heartbeat and bare soles on pavement, I am found.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“If I could give you my heart like an atlas, I’d let your fingers trace the highways, the veins that make the backroads, the creeks, pauses where you’ve taken my breath.”

— Marisa Donnelly, shopcatalog.com

“Long and liquid words like wounds reopening, spilling blood across the surface of each page. I wrote every secret, every hope, every wish, confessing how my lips still long to be kissed by yours.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“If you are the wind, I am a dandelion seed, twisting spinning, caught in your embrace, traveling miles, seeing a sky I’d never dreamed.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I stayed in the street and stared into the expanse. A sky that promised new beginnings with every flickering star.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“I’ve been smiling at temporary faces looking into temporary eyes kissing temporary lips touching temporary bodies searching for you.”

— Marisa Donnelly, shopcatalog.com

“Sometimes I wonder if beginnings have endings or if endings are only beginnings of something else.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“We ache for the zing of a strawberry when we can no longer taste the seeds— like remembering you, bitter and beautiful on my tongue.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc

“Go. Run. Leave. For you were not born to stay still.”

— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc