Andrea Gibson Quotes

I listened to the bells on the door
and stole more than enough bottles for myself
to understand that everyone's chest
is a living room wall
with awkwardly placed photographs
hiding fist-shaped holes.

And I wasn’t gonna be just ok.

I was gonna be perfect.

THERE IS NO WEAPON
MORE DANGEROUS
THAN A WOUND

It is untrue
that bravery can be measured
by a lack of fear.
It takes guts to tremble.
It takes tremble to love.

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.

This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.

I know most people try hard
to do good and find out too late
they should have tried softer.

Cause I don't wanna be a witness to this life,
I want to be charged and convicted,
ear lifted to her song like a bouquet of yes
because my heart is a parachute that has never opened in time
and I wanna fuck up that pattern,
leave a hole where the cold comes in and fill it every day with her sun,
'cause anyone who has ever sat in lotus for more than a few seconds
knows it takes a hell of a lot more muscle to stay than to go

To understand the universe, I turn to science but to understand my place in it, I turn to poetry.

I'm not a pessimist, I'm just thinking about how she said, 'I love you,' while I was having a panic attack and how that means she's probably a liar and how she'll likely cut off her own nose to prove me wrong and how then she won't smell my pheromones and how then we'll both die of lesbian bed death.

Too much lives in a moment
to not feed it to the fire in the heart, slow.

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

Only I know how broke I got
buying into the theory that my
life was something
that happened to me
and that's not to say I gave
every hurt a permission slip.
I didn't. But I did cast myself in
a lot of crappy roles. I've been
told almost every argument is a
race for the victim position. I'm
tired of winning the gold.

Remember the time when we saw two boys kissing on the street in Kansas and we both broken down crying, 'cause it was Kansas, and you said, 'What are the chances of seeing anything but corn in Kansas?!' We were born again that day. I cut your cord and you cut mine.

And I say,
I crash in to things in the dark
Even when the lights are on
And I am wrong more often than I am writing
And even then, I am often wrong
But when my friends are in the bathroom at the bar
Rolling dollar bills in to telescopes,
Claiming they can see God,
I will come to you