244 Quotes by Andrea Gibson

Our insanity isn't that we see people who aren't there. It's that we ignore the ones who are.

What if I don't want the monsterto stop being a monster?What if that's the only anchor I have left?What if my sanity depends on being able to pointat a bad thing and say, That is the bad thing.Haven't I already lost enough timelosing track of who the enemy is?I've spent half of my life not knowing the differencebetween killing myself and fighting back.

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

I remember the way loveused to glow on my skinbefore he made his way innow every touch feels like a sin

Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside.

I loved you from our first date at the batting cages when I missed twenty-three balls in a row and you looked at me like I was a home run in the ninth inning of the world series. Now every time i hear the word "love" I think, "going, going...

Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,And soup,And peanut butter cookies,Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil,But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!

I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.