Marisa Donnelly

It’s obvious that they care, but there’s just a little something holding them back from truly letting you in.

What kind of music do you listen to when you’re sad?

Anchorage: The longing to grasp a moment between your fingertips, to hold onto the sentences, the words, the memories and keep them with you.

Love is not a power play, not roles and dynamics and shoes you must fill. You don’t need to become something better just to have someone’s affection, even if the other person’s intentions are pure. And you can’t make someone change for your reasons, or even the right reasons.

You serve an Almighty God.

So much of ourselves is measured, calculated, and compared to the worldly standards we should uphold. Love was never meant to be one of those things.

When you start to doubt, ask yourself this: Why are you so worried, do you not serve an incredible, all-powerful God?

You suck because you’re letting a few terrible times alter your perception of the way the world dates. You suck because you’re choosing to only see the crap, rather than the possibility, the ‘maybes,’ the ‘could bes’ surrounding letting another person in.

You appreciate yourself for the imperfect, complex, and astounding being you are.

I want sweaty palms and timid fingers reaching out to hold one another’s hands. I want flushed cheeks and hesitant steps. I want laugh lines and nervous giggles.

Virgo: You are a great listener, trustworthy, calm and collected, no matter the drama you face. Because of your patient nature and your ability to often take on more than you should, you find yourself attracting the guy with baggage.

Let’s stop keeping a checklist of whether we’re ‘right’ for each other. Let’s stop listening to the cautionary voices of the world, saying that we’re young and dumb, that we’re silly and reckless. Let’s forget them and just love like crazy.

It is possible to be the girl who’s independent, and still depend on the guy she loves. It is possible to be the woman who’s strong, and even stronger with her man by her side.

A woman’s strength does not equal a man’s weakness.

Help me to see beyond face value, beyond my attraction, beyond the entanglings of my heart. Show me where you are in this relationship—whether or not you’re present, and what my next step should be.

Being a son or daughter of Christ is your identity.

This could be beautiful, or it could crash and burn. But would you rather hold back and spend the remainder of your days wondering what could have been?

Altschmerz: The strange fear of running out of things to think about. Wondering whether you’ll always ponder over the same issues, same anxieties, same problems, leaving you bored and tired.