Marisa Donnelly

Looking for love in unpromising places.

Pain is not meant to end you. Bad days are not all there is. Weakness is not what defines you. And the broken pieces of you do not reflect who you are.

We can be physically apart, we can long for one another’s touch, kiss, hand, but our love is deeper than skin.

You are brave.

I want to fall in love with you—deeply, fully, overwhelmingly. But I also want to stay true to myself.

No longer will I settle for being half-loved.

Cancer: The one who doesn’t understand the depth of your heart.

“You deserve the love you keep trying to give everyone else.” – Bianca Sparacino

This is your reminder that a breakthrough always happens in the midst of pain. That just when you think you can’t resurface, you find air.

I hope that when you feel overwhelmed, instead of taking the pressure upon yourself, you exhale, you pray, and you turn to your Creator.

Pisces: You are beautifully sensitive.

God, please strengthen me and give me your love—pour it into my spirit. Let it warm me, let it course through my veins, let it remind me that in you, I can do all things.

You pretend that what you feel is love for so long that you trick your mind into thinking it is.

I don’t care if there are a million and one reasons why our lives might be easier if we weren’t together; I’d take the most complicated, messy life with you over the one without.

I am not afraid to shed the skin that once was warm with your touch. The familiarity I wore like an extra layer—one, for the longest time, I was too stubborn to take off.

You question everything.

You don’t have to be at home or have a ‘home’ to feel the holiday spirit.

Let 2018 be the year you finally burn with passion—for the things you create, the work you do, the relationships you build or fall into.