Averie Woodard

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

"You were meant to run. Born to grab the earth with your fingertips, taste the wild and uncharted on your tongue." —Marisa Donnelly
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson
August 1, 2017
“She felt the interstate shift under her feet
each step, a promise of who she would one day become.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Power of Movement
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Highway, heart, H4D
“I’ve been smiling at temporary faces
looking into temporary eyes
kissing temporary lips
touching temporary bodies
searching
for you.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Temporary, Love, H4D
“Maybe we’ll always be connected
across the expanse of space and sky,
and when I lift my head from the pillow,
you’ll feel my energy too. You’ll wonder
why you’ve felt so restless
ever since I left.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Connection, Restless, H4D
“You were meant to run.
Born to grab the earth with your fingertips,
taste the wild and uncharted on your tongue.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wild, Free, H4D, Inspirational
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Leaving, Longing, Searching, Searching For Answers, Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Searching, Longing, Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway
“Who would have known
just one taste
could set my heart
on fire?”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, kiss
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Night, Searching, Longing
“I should have known
your kiss
would taste like rebellion.
I should have known
those lips
would hurt and heal.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Longing, Your Kiss
“I kissed and kissed
until I could almost forget
how restless I’d become.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Longing, kiss, Restless
“Maybe our bodies
are just hearts
with legs
and that’s why we’re so quick
to run.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Longing, Restless, Running, Our Hearts
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Longing, Restless, Running Away, Love, Love Poem
“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 feel so lost.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Longing, Restless, Running Away, Driving, Driving On A Highway, On A Highway, lost, Feeling Lost
“You and I
were never meant to last
too many elbows, too much skin
two bodies intertwined
in beds
but never dreams.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Longing, you and I, Impermanence, Missing You
“Tonight I’ll drive until I run out of gas
chasing the sun.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Chasing The Sun
“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 want to follow rules,
but make my own, soaking
up this earth and all the sunshine.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Take In The World, Run Wild, Run Wild With Me, Wild Women, Wild Woman, Run
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Wanting More, Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Searching, Take In The World, Run Wild, Run Wild With Me, Wild Women, Wild Woman, Run
“You are time.

We move together
passionate
lovers.

Each other’s desire,
each other’s demise.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, you and I, Bad For Each Other, Toxic Love
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, you and I, Becoming Love, Becoming Poetry
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Longing, Searching, Wild Woman
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Longing, Searching, Open Road, Highway, Running
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Longing, Searching, Love, Impermanence, Impermanent Love, Unrequited Love, Searching For Forever
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Longing, Searching, Memory, remember, Rememberance
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Poetry, poem, Somewhere On A Highway, Longing, Searching, Memory, Stars, Guided By The Stars, Finding Your Place
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, For You, Love Poem, I Wrote This For You, Missing You, Longing
“But in all the white,
the steady rhythm of heartbeat
and bare soles on pavement,
I am found.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, I Am Found, found, Lost And Found, Running
“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, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Love, Love Poem, Wind, Together, Connected
“I stayed in the street and stared into the expanse.

A sky that promised new beginnings
with every flickering star.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, I Am Found, found, Lost And Found, Finding Yourself, Home, Stars, Sky
“Sometimes I wonder if beginnings have endings
or if endings are only beginnings of something else.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere on a Highway
Tagged: Somewhere On A Highway, Poetry, Searching, Temporary, Endings, Beginnings, Searching For Answers