Andrea Gibson Quotes

I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday
And tonight I'll only borrow pieces of who I am today
To carry with me to tomorrow

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

I do not wear a welcome mat on my chest just so people can walk all over it fumbling with the keys to the locks they keep building for the doors I keep opening hoping someone will see the rainforest growing in my living room.

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

safety isn't always safe.
you can find one on every gun.
i am aiming to do better.

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

When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks
and you pray for rain.
And you teach your sons and daughters
there are sharks in the water
but the only way to survive
is to breathe deep
and dive.

I said to the the sun
'Tell me about the big bang'

The sun said
'It hurts to become

You keep worrying you're taking up too much space. I wish you'd let yourself be the milky way.

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

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

Our insanity isn't that we see people who aren't there. It's that we ignore the ones who are.

I started talking to the stars in the sky instead. I said, “Tell me about the big bang.” The stars said, “It hurts to become.

If love did not exist I would be so goddamn sane my poems would be billboards. Suburbia would be enough. I would not have to gut myself to find my spine crushed into powder and brushed on her cheekbones. My hair would not be a hummingbird’s nest. My mind would not have to move so fast to rest.

Beating yourself up is never a fair fight.