Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes. Andrea Gibson More Quotes by Andrea Gibson More Quotes From Andrea Gibson I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become. Andrea Gibson bangs hurt sun I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home. Andrea Gibson ocean mistake running Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are. Andrea Gibson insanity people Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery. Andrea Gibson poetry tree inspirational But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine. Andrea Gibson bruises hitting loneliness I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing Andrea Gibson heart believe fall 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. Andrea Gibson different keys soldier Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too. Andrea Gibson healing sometimes people Every lover is a storm chaser. Andrea Gibson storm lovers heart 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! Andrea Gibson causes fields i-like-you For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me. Andrea Gibson halloween stable knows ..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother? when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold? yesterday i was told a story about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old, who cannot fall asleep because when she does she dreams of nothing but the day she watched her dog eat her neighbor's corpse. if you told her war is over do you think she can sleep? Andrea Gibson girl mother dream We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction. Andrea Gibson destruction I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass. Andrea Gibson glasses feel-good mirrors You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty Andrea Gibson echoes heart promise 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. Andrea Gibson yarn writing inspirational Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Andrea Gibson okay knows feels 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 sexy inspirational night 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 gold home heart Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? Andrea Gibson pain heart thinking
