Andrea Gibson

Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.

— Andrea Gibson

The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

— Andrea Gibson

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every…

— Andrea Gibson

For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.

— Andrea Gibson

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

— Andrea Gibson

Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.

— Andrea Gibson

We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.

— Andrea Gibson

You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

— Andrea Gibson

she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to…

— Andrea Gibson

...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape…

— Andrea Gibson

I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love…

— Andrea Gibson

“I remember the way love used to glow on my skin before he made his way in now every touch feels like…

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Andrea Gibson

My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

— Andrea Gibson

I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong

— Andrea Gibson

Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.

— Andrea Gibson

Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.

— Andrea Gibson

We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.

— Andrea Gibson

Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.

— Andrea Gibson

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

— Andrea Gibson