244 Quotes by Andrea Gibson

When the first responders entered the Pulse Nightclub after the massacre in Orlando, they walked through the horrific scene of bodies and called out, “If you’re alive, raise your hand.” I was sweeping in a hotel in the midwest at the time but I imagine in that exact moment my hand twitched in my sleep – some unconscious part of me aware, that I had a pulse. That I was alive.

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.’

I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

I suppose we wear our traumas the way the guillotine wears gravity; our lovers’ necks are so soft.

Coming into our own humanity often takes enormous effort, commitment and bravery. I believe we should be taught that at an early age. I believe part of the violence of our culture stirs from the myth is kindness is natural. I think kindness would only be natural in a world where no one is hurt, and everyone is hurt. So kindness is work. Kindness is knees in the garden weeding our bites, our apathies, our cold shoulders, our silences, our cruelties, whatever taught us the world ‘ugly’.

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.

Because anyone who has ever sat in lotus for more than a few seconds knows it takes a hell of a lot more muscle to stay then to go.

But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever.

It’s okay. Everybody’s survival looks a little bit like death sometimes.