244 Quotes by Andrea Gibson

I know this world is far from perfect.I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon.I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic.But every ocean has a shorelineand every shoreline has a tidethat is constantly returningto wake the songbirds in our hands,to wake the music in our bones,to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born riverthat has to run through the center of our heartsto find its way home.

I met a woman and we were lying in her bed, about to kiss for the very first time. Just before our lips touched she jumped up and ran to her closet and grabbed a stethoscope. She came back to the bed, put the earpieces in my ears, slipped the disc down her shirt onto her heart, and whispered, 'I want you to listen to my heart speed up when you kiss me.' And I kissed her, and I listened to her heart beat faster and faster and faster.

And I say,I crash in to things in the darkEven when the lights are onAnd I am wrong more often than I am writingAnd even then, I am often wrongBut when my friends are in the bathroom at the barRolling dollar bills in to telescopes,Claiming they can see God,I will come to you

It is untruethat bravery can be measuredby a lack of fear.It takes guts to tremble.It takes tremble to love.

Maybe it's coming out of the closet with all of it, knowing even when the truth isn't hopeful the telling of it is.

They're gonna keep telling you are a crime of natureand you're gonna look at all your options, and choose conviction,choose to carve your own heart out of a side of a cliff,choose to spend your whole life telling secrets you owe no one till everyone, till there isn't anyone who can insult you by calling you what you are.

I listened to the bells on the doorand stole more than enough bottles for myselfto understand that everyone's chestis a living room wallwith awkwardly placed photographshiding fist-shaped holes.

Do we really believe our need for Prozachas nothing to 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?

Patriarchy taught me how to take a punch better than I could take a compliment.