Andrea Gibson Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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?

Someday we will dare to trade good for true

You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.

I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts

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.

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

You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.

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.

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

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

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

Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

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.

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

But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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