244 Quotes by Andrea Gibson

...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.

So build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be. Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart, your brush, your march, your art, your poetry, your play. 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.

you don't lose a personlike a set of keys because you don't find them againand you can still get to where you're going.

There was a typo in the book. The line read, "I want to merry you." I thought, "That's exactly what I want to do: merry somebody.

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.

,Do we really believe our need for Prozachas nothing t do with Fallujah,with Kabul, with the Mexican border,with the thousands of U.S. school kidsbleeding budget cuts that will never healto fuel war tanks?

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

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.

When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracksand you pray for rain.And you teach your sons and daughtersthere are sharks in the waterbut the only way to surviveis to breathe deepand dive.