Andrea Gibson
13 quotes
Biography
"Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground."
"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."
"But whateverHoweverWhenever this ends I want you to knowThat right nowI love you forever"
"My mouth is a fire escape.The words coming outdon’t care that they are naked.There is something burning in there."
"Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun."
"We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night..."
"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."
"...It’s hard to watchthe game we make of love,like everyone’s playing checkerswith their scars,saying checkmatewhenever they get outwithout a broken heart.Just to be clearI don’t want to get outwithout a broken heart.I intend to leave this lifeso shatteredthere’s gonna have to bea thousand separate heavensfor all of my flying parts."
"Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?"
"and I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe."
"Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,And soup,And peanut butter cookies,Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil,But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!"
"I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak."
"A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon."