Andrea Gibson
I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.Collection: People
I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.Collection: Home
Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.Collection: Prayer
I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.Collection: Dream
Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.Collection: Loving Yourself
We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.Collection: Destruction
Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.Collection: Love
I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already 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.Collection: Heart
I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.Collection: Who I Am
I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.Collection: Coffee
Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.Collection: Healing
You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.Collection: Inspirational
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.Collection: Inspirational
Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.Collection: Inspirational
...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.Collection: War
If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together.Collection: Baby
I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.Collection: Hurt
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.Collection: Inspirational
I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.Collection: Ocean
You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.'Collection: Heart
I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.Collection: Running
Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.Collection: Keys
I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.Collection: Glasses
I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrongCollection: Writing
If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?Collection: Laughing
Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.Collection: Keys
Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Dream
Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.Collection: Ignorance
Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.Collection: Gun
What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.Collection: Believe
Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.Collection: Ice
Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.Collection: Love
If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.Collection: Would Be
she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to singCollection: Wings
This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.Collection: Inspirational
None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.Collection: Ugly
Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.Collection: Love Is
Yes, I like girls; Yes, I like boys; I like boys who like boys; I like girls who wear toys and girls who don't; I like girls who don't call themselves girls; Crew cuts or curls or that really bad hair phase in between.Collection: Girl
Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.Collection: Land
You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertimeCollection: War
Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!Collection: Letting Go
Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?Collection: Song
And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.Collection: Inspirational
So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.Collection: Inspirational
If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.Collection: Stars