Andrea Gibson Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Dream, Believe, Able

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• Say this is what the pain made of you:
  an open, open, open road,
  an avalanche of feel it all.

  Andrea Gibson

  Pain, Avalanches, Made

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• We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
  but you still have to call it a birthday.

  Andrea Gibson

  People, Way, Born

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.10, SCB Distributors

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• 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Home, Heart

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

  Andrea Gibson

  Ignorance, Pieces, Left

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• Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

  Andrea Gibson

  Gun, Safety, Safe

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• What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

  Andrea Gibson

  Believe, Mirrors, Temples

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.26, SCB Distributors

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• 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Ice, Names, Yesterday

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• Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love, Loving Someone, Poetry

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• If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.

  Andrea Gibson

  Would Be, Sane, Ifs

  Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.9, Penguin

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• 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 sing

  Andrea Gibson

  Wings, Feelings, World

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.25, SCB Distributors

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• This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Poetry, House

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2010

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• None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.

  Andrea Gibson

  Ugly

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• Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.

  Andrea Gibson

  Love Is, Magic, Melting

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• 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Girl, Cutting, Boys

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• Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.

  Andrea Gibson

  Land, Soul, Found

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• You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime

  Andrea Gibson

  War, Summertime, Cold

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• Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!

  Andrea Gibson

  Letting Go, Hands, Verbs

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.64, SCB Distributors

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• 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?

  Andrea Gibson

  Song, Home, Cutting

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• 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, New Orleans, Light

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• 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.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Team, Kids

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• If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

  Andrea Gibson

  Stars, Dark, Flashlights

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.62, SCB Distributors

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• Hey, are you a boy or a — never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.

  Andrea Gibson

  Growing Up, Boys, Simple

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• This is my body. It is no one's but mine.

  Andrea Gibson

  Body, Mines

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• But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.

  Andrea Gibson

  Hitting, Hitting Back, Bottom

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