Andrea Gibson Quotes

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• 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Home, Writing, Heart

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

  Andrea Gibson

  People, Important, Plans

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• Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Prayer, Thinking, Solitude

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• I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Strong, Real

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• Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

  Andrea Gibson

  Loving Yourself, Lifetime, Radical

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

  Andrea Gibson

  Destruction

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• Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love, Music, Broken Heart

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• 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. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, Enough Already, Play Hard

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• I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.

  Andrea Gibson

  Who I Am, Yesterday, Tonight

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• 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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  Coffee, Book, Tea

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

  Andrea Gibson

  Healing, People, Sometimes

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

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Stars, Poetry

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.17, SCB Distributors

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  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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Prayer

  Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.64, Penguin

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• Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Baby, Fall

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• ...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.

  Andrea Gibson

  War, Color, Shapes

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• If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together.

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  Baby, Heart, Ideas

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• I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.

  Andrea Gibson

  Hurt, Bangs, Sun

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• 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sexy, Night

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• Don't google your name. Ever.
  Don't “search” for yourself
  on anything that glows in the dark.
  Don't let your beauty
  be something anyone can turn off.
  Don't edit your ugly out of your bio.
  Let your light come from the fire.
  Let your pain be the spark,
  but not the timber.
  Remember, you didn't come here
  to write your heart out.
  You came to write it in.

  Andrea Gibson

  Pain, Writing, Heart

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• I have always been comfortable weathering the storm.
  I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.

  Andrea Gibson

  Storm, Sunny Day, Sunny

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• 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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  Ocean, Kissing, Storm

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• It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

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  Rain, Heart, Angel

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

  Andrea Gibson

  Halloween, Knows, Stable

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• Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

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  Keys, Piano, Ribs

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.37, SCB Distributors

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

  Andrea Gibson

  Home, Heart, Gold

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