“because I’m 2,000 miles away with only my heartbeat keeping me company, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You were all things soft: a feather, a candle a kiss on a tired cheek. But you were not weak. You took the world and made all yours. And yes, you became.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“And so you became. Your soul felt lighter, shifting with the weight of change. You stopped trying to fit and started to just be. Imperfect and flawed, tough and soft, tender and strong.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Maybe where the sky and the water and the sand meet my new story begins. I am just now in my infinite moment becoming.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“I have found a home in a woman strong, fierce, and loved. And she smiles back at me in the bathroom mirror. Proud and unafraid.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You were never foolish for kissing him, for looking deep into his eyes, for losing your footing like a teenager, stumbling and drunk on love.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You were young, And you were searching, even then. But you were trying to make homes out of temporary people. Trying to find yourself in the body of a stranger who could never fill you, never complete you, never satisfy the longing in your chest to be both protected and set free, both loved and let…”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“I hope wherever she takes you that you will learn to call the place home. And that you will let the sky fill you with rain when you are emptied like a bucket overflowing, spilling off the edges, quenching the thirst of our broken earth Until you no longer ache for anything but your steady legs and t…”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Real love is never about the hours the months the years nestling between two bodies. With you and I, the clock will never stand a chance.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“I feel free somewhere on a highway where time is endless and I choose where I will go and who I will become.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“A highway cleanses— my feet to the gravel or foot on the gas, destination lost in yellow lines, in faded street signs and the woman I used to be in the rearview.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Now I understand time never mattered with love—with us. You can’t erase a person’s touch from your memory or stop your heart from beating at the mention of a name.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You survive. You let go. You burned your pain, held the ashes in your palm and set them free into the sky.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Perhaps I was never meant to wander on tired feet. Perhaps they ache after long days because the soles bear the weight of a world where they will never belong.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Sometimes life is simple, my feet on the dashboard your fingers in my hair the windows down and our worries in the rearview.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“They never know how to love a strong woman until she’s gone, until they realize all she needed was to fly without her wings being clipped.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“You’re still the green-grey eyes, the laugh that warms me. You’re still the unbrushed hair. And I promise I’ll run my fingers through the tangles. Promise I’ll kiss every lonely strand, every broken follicle. Until you can taste the forever on my lips.”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc