Andrea Gibson Quotes
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I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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Someday we will dare to trade good for true
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I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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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.
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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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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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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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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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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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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
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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
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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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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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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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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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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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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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