“I wonder if you know I still think about you every time I drive the gravel backroad where we first kissed, electricity between us sparking white against that night sky like fireflies.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“you were the only man who made me believe even those born to run might learn to slow down.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You will always remind me of late nights on I-35, Three Musketeers bars melting chocolate all over my fingers and you laughing, leaning in to kiss the sweetness from my lips.”— 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
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“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 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
“She’s not the kind of girl you choose your battles for. She’s the kind of girl you fight to the death for.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“But my words become stained with your love. You occupy everything, you occupy everything.”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“It’s awful not to be loved. It’s the worst thing in the world…It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“You are mysterious. I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I admire people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com