244 Quotes by Andrea Gibson

What I know about living is that the pain is never just ours. Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo, so I keep listening for the moment the grief becomes a window, when I can see what I couldn’t see before.

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy. I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside. Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside.

Like Pac-Man, she swallows my ghosts.

She makes me feel like I could win the lottery with a parking ticket.

I know there are couples who never argue. But you and I, we are always going to fight for love.

You have to understand when it hurt to love her, it hurt the way the light hurts your eyes in the middle of the night, but I had to see.

We’re boxed in and labeled before we’re ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we’ll become.

I imagine what the flower wanted to say to the first human trying to name half its petals love me nots: “No. That is not how anything grows.

If you told her the war is over do you think she’d sleep?