Andrea Gibson Quotes
Top 81 wise famous quotes and sayings by Andrea Gibson
Andrea Gibson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
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.
like you've never seen how a blender works,
like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade.
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
if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat
We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
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.
if I blow off steam
as long as I speak in an octave
my kindness can still reach.
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.
my ribcage sounds like a fucking railroad track
and my breath is a train I just can't catch.
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
Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it's the place where the music comes through.
My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don't care that they are naked.
There is something burning in there.
The words coming out
don't care that they are naked.
There is something burning in there.
I have always been comfortable weathering the storm.
I'd like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
I'd like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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
And tonight I'll only borrow pieces of who I am today
To carry with me to tomorrow
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.
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.
You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.
Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
Our hearts beat so loud the neighbours think we're fucking when I'm just trying to find the nerve to touch your face.
The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
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.
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.
We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
but you still have to call it a birthday.
but you still have to call it a birthday.
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.
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like
they're falling in love with the ground.
they're falling in love with the ground.
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.
I thought, "The flowers, save the flowers ... "
I never thought for a second
we wouldn't save the people
I never thought for a second
we wouldn't save the people
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.