Top 100 Andrea Gibson Quotes

#1. We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night ...

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#2. Every lover is a storm chaser.
Every good heart has lost its roof.

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#3. Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

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#4. I wish for a heart you can see straight through, for a voice that glows in the dark, and a few really good friends to say, That's the way to go.

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#5. You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.'

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#6. We were the letters sent to the wrong address,
but opened anyway.

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#7. For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.

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#8. What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

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#9. Someday we will dare
to trade good for true

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#10. And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.

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#11. The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

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#12. This is my body. It is no one's but mine.

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#13. Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack.

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#14. And I am wrong more often than I am writing. And even then, I am often wrong.

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#15. If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn't make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn't exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?

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#16. I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.

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#17. To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.

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#18. Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground.

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#19. It is incredible what kind of mess I can make
with a nine-hour drive and an unanswered text.

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#20. I said to the the sun
'Tell me about the big bang'
The sun said
'It hurts to become

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#21. We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.

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#22. Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.

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#23. You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime

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#24. My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don't care that they are naked.
There is something burning in there.

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#25. I've written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

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#26. If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?

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#27. You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

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#28. The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

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#29. So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.

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#30. If you're handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

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#31. Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

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#32. None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.

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#33. Our hearts beat so loud the neighbours think we're fucking when I'm just trying to find the nerve to touch your face.

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#34. I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.

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#35. This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn't have to.

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#36. We have all fought for our lives
more than we know,
survived our own questions.

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#37. My mother says it is totally fine
if I blow off steam
as long as I speak in an octave
my kindness can still reach.

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#38. You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

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#39. Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.

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#40. How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?

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#41. Our insanity is not that we see people who aren't there. It's that we ignore the ones who are.

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#42. That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

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#43. A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that's why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

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#44. Commit to loving yourself completely. It's the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

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#45. Everyone's chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.

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#46. But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.

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#47. I am whoever I am when I am it.

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#48. I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.

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#49. We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
but you still have to call it a birthday.

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#50. You keep worrying you're taking up too much space. I wish you'd let yourself be the milky way.

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#51. And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you're marching towards. Everyone knows what you're against; show them what you're for.

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#52. When 28,000 buildings fall do you know how many walls are no longer there?

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#53. They're telling you to blend in,
like you've never seen how a blender works,
like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade.

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#54. I have always been comfortable weathering the storm.
I'd like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.

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#55. You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

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#56. You are a mystery I promise I will never try to solve.

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#57. Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it's the place where the music comes through.

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#58. I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.

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#59. My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.

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#60. Just to be clear I don't want to get out without a broken heart. I indend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand seperate heavens for all of my flying parts.

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#61. We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.

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#62. I'd cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I'd write love poems to the parts of yourself you can't stand. I'd stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I'm not afraid of your dark.

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#63. Say this is what the pain made of you:
an open, open, open road,
an avalanche of feel it all.

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#64. Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube
then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores
today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door
and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.

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#65. Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.

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#66. Some days my heart beats so fast
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch.

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#67. Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,
And soup,
And peanut butter cookies,
Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil,
But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!

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#68. My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

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#69. Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?

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#70. I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.

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#71. I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.

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#72. Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

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#73. I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.

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#74. Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!

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#75. Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.

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#76. I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.

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#77. This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

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#78. You have to understand when it hurt to love her, it hurt the way the light hurts your eyes in the middle of the night, but I had to see.

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#79. I started talking to the stars in the sky instead. I said, "Tell me about the big bang." The stars said, "It hurts to become.

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#80. I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace
if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat

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#81. My fingertips miss her so much.

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#82. I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers ... "
I never thought for a second
we wouldn't save the people

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#83. And feelings were always smarter things than thoughts

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#84. I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday
And tonight I'll only borrow pieces of who I am today
To carry with me to tomorrow

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#85. I do not wear a welcome mat on my chest just so people can walk all over it fumbling with the keys to the locks they keep building for the doors I keep opening hoping someone will see the rainforest growing in my living room.

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#86. In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.

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#87. Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.

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#88. Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

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#89. Before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

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#90. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.

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#91. Right now there's a man on the street outside my door
with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear.
He has cheeks like torn sheet music
every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears.
At his side there's a boy with eyes like an anthem
no one stands up for.

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#92. If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.

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#93. And I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
the first time his fingers touched the keys
the same way a soldier holds his breath
the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

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#94. She's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing

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#95. Hey, are you a boy or a - never mind, can I have a push on the swing? And some day, y'all, when we grow up, it's all gonna be that simple.

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#96. Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.

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#97. I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

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#98. Listen, I know you run your mouth so your mind can rest.

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#99. I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.

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#100. Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

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