“Look I'm standing naked before you, don't you want more then my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, but I can't claim innocence.”— Tori Amos, open.spotify.com
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I should have known your kiss would taste like rebellion. I should have known those lips would hurt and heal.”— 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
“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 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
“I understood I wanted and deserved to to feel amazing at all times. I needed consistency, and perhaps he wasn't ready to offer me what I desired.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com