Andrea Gibson Quotes

Here, I shall be useless.
The world can go on without me.
Here I shall be held by love.

Regret is a time machine to the past.
Worry is a time machine to the future.
Gratitude is a time machine to the present.

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

Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.

They're telling you to blend in,
like you've never seen how a blender works,
like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade.

I know David argued with the chisel. I know he said, 'Make me softer.

You are a mystery I promise I will never try to solve.

Brave
Is a hand-me-down suit from
Terrified as hell

The worst thing that ever happened to me wasn’t the worst thing that ever happened to me; hating myself for it was.

It’s true what they say about the gays being so fashionable — our ghosts never go out of style, even life is like funeral practice: half of us already dead to our families before we die, half of us still on our knees trying to crawl into the family photo.

They want you thinking you're bad at being a girl instead of good at being yourself. They want you to buy your blush from a store instead of letting it bloom from your butterflies. They're telling you to blend in, like you've never seen how a blender works. Like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade.

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

Like Pac-Man, she swallows my ghosts.

...It’s hard to watch
the game we make of love,
like everyone’s playing checkers
with their scars,
saying checkmate
whenever they get out
without a broken heart.

Just to be clear
I don’t want to get out
without a broken heart.
I intend to leave this life
so shattered
there’s gonna have to be
a thousand separate heavens
for all of my flying parts.

and feelings were always smarter things than thoughts