Andrea Gibson Quotes

Storms are born

from the same sky we write hymns to when the sun shines.

Maybe sometimes you get tired of seeing people’s humanity in moments where they’re outright refusing to show us their humanity.

We have all fought for our lives
more than we know,
survived our own questions.

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

I’ve spent half of my life not knowing the difference between killing myself and fighting back. What if I don’t want healing
as much as I want justice? What if I don’t care if justice looks exactly like revenge? Do you think I don’t know that I can’t want revenge without strapping the bomb to my own chest? That’s how the dominoes of trauma fall. You become just another thing about to detonate.

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.

In gym class, a girl called me a dyke and I didn't have the language to tell her she was wrong and right. I just showed up at her house promising to paint my fingernails red with what would gush from her busted face if she ever said it again.

My grandfather went to Heaven.

I know this because he taught my mother
how to wiggle her ears.
I know this because my mother walks the same way
my grandfather did
and on the days my mother cannot get out of bed
her single comfort
is knowing she has his blood.

It is incredible what kind of mess I can make
with a nine-hour drive and an unanswered text.

Come tender as the trees
forgiving the books
for asking to be made.

Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside.

There are few weapons more dangerous than our wounds, and, being wounded, there are things we all do that we would often rather die than face.

who with a heart can stomach / how much they can stomach? / all your blood in the water / and i could still wade through, / and i will again and i will again / and i will again with everyone i lose. / what i want most is to live / the rest of my life desperately / wanting to live it.

Silence rides shotgun
wherever hate goes.

Listen, I know you run your mouth so your mind can rest.