244 Quotes by Andrea Gibson

Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.

Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.

...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.

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

You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

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