244 Quotes by Andrea Gibson

I know a thousand things louder than a soldier’s gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say ‘please, come back’, I feel like I’m trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack.

My first psychotherapist told me to spend three hours each day sitting in a dark closet with my eyes closed and my ears plugged. I tried it once but couldn’t stop thinking how gay it was to be sitting in the closet.

I explain my gender by saying I am happiest on the road when I’m not here or there, but in between, that yellow line coming down the center of it all like a goddamn sunbeam.

Someday we will dare to trade good for true.

If love did not exist I would be so goddamn sane my poems would be billboards. Suburbia would be enough. I would not have to gut myself to find my spine crushed into powder and brushed on her cheekbones. My hair would not be a hummingbird’s nest. My mind would not have to move so fast to rest.

We have cried so hard our tears have left scars on our cheekbones.

Tell me we’ll be naming our children Beautiful and nothing else.

I grew up in the town that received the first distress signal saying the Titanic was going down. It was the only thing we were ever renowned for. In fact, we prided ourselves on our failure to save the sinking, which is maybe part of the reason I prided myself on drinking my first fifth of whiskey at twelve years old. It’s cold where I come from. I learned to drown young.