Top 150 Andrea Gibson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ’it hurts to become.”

— Andrea Gibson

2. “I don’t have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.”

— Andrea Gibson

3. “You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.”

— Andrea Gibson

4. “Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.”

— Andrea Gibson

5. “We have to create; it is the only thing louder than destruction.”

— Andrea Gibson

6. “When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.”

— Andrea Gibson

7. “Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.”

— Andrea Gibson

8. “I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.”

— Andrea Gibson

9. “I could never trust anyone who’s well adjusted to a sick society.”

— Andrea Gibson

10. “My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.”

— Andrea Gibson

11. “Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.”

— Andrea Gibson

12. “Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.”

— Andrea Gibson

13. “I write because it is while I’m writing that I feel most connected to why we’re here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.”

— Andrea Gibson

14. “Safety isn’t always safe. You can find one on every gun.”

— Andrea Gibson

15. “Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.”

— Andrea Gibson

16. “Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

— Andrea Gibson

17. “For Halloween I’m gonna be emotionally stable. No one’s gonna know it’s me.”

— Andrea Gibson

18. “I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.”

— Andrea Gibson

19. “Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”

— Andrea Gibson

20. “I’m good at loving books. I’m good at loving soft bed sheets. I’m good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can’t love me back, that don’t have the power to leave. And maybe, that’s why I love them.”

— Andrea Gibson

21. “Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.”

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Andrea Gibson

23. “A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.”

— Andrea Gibson

24. “If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.”

— Andrea Gibson

25. “You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.”

— Andrea Gibson

26. “Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don’t you dare let go of my hand!”

— Andrea Gibson

27. “But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.”

— Andrea Gibson

28. “Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”

— Andrea Gibson

29. “I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong.”

— Andrea Gibson

30. “Everything but “I LOVE YOU” is small talk.”

— Andrea Gibson

31. “This is my body. It is no one’s but mine.”

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Andrea Gibson

33. “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.”

— Andrea Gibson

34. “Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.”

— Andrea Gibson

35. “This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.”

— Andrea Gibson

36. “Someday we will dare to trade good for true.”

— Andrea Gibson

37. “My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.”

— Andrea Gibson

38. “We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”

— Andrea Gibson

39. “Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?”

— Andrea Gibson

40. “All living is storm chasing. Every good heart has lost its roof. Let the walls collapse at your feet. Scream, ‘Timber,’ when they ask how you are. ‘Fine’ is the suckiest word. It is the opposite of ’here.”

— Andrea Gibson

41. “The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.”

— Andrea Gibson

42. “If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it; if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?”

— Andrea Gibson

43. “Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.”

— Andrea Gibson

44. “We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.”

— Andrea Gibson

45. “Love isn’t always magic. Sometimes it’s just melting.”

— Andrea Gibson

46. “If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.”

— Andrea Gibson

47. “Yes, I like girls; Yes, I like boys; I like boys who like boys; I like girls who wear toys and girls who don’t; I like girls who don’t call themselves girls; Crew cuts or curls or that really bad hair phase in between.”

— Andrea Gibson

48. “I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.”

— Andrea Gibson

49. “Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.”

— Andrea Gibson

50. “You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.”

— Andrea Gibson