Top 150 Andrea Gibson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.”

— Andrea Gibson

52. “What Gods do you believe in? I’ll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.”

— Andrea Gibson

53. “Touch me ’til my ribs become piano keys, ’til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.”

— Andrea Gibson

54. “That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”

— Andrea Gibson

55. “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.”

— Andrea Gibson

56. “To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.”

— Andrea Gibson

57. “You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.”

— Andrea Gibson

58. “Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I’m here.”

— Andrea Gibson

59. “We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won’t flinch at when they find.”

— Andrea Gibson

60. “Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.”

— Andrea Gibson

61. “If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?”

— Andrea Gibson

62. “Do you know they found land mines in woman’s souls.”

— Andrea Gibson

63. “So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record ’cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can’t hear it when we speak.”

— Andrea Gibson

64. “None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.”

— Andrea Gibson

65. “My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.”

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Andrea Gibson

67. “You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime.”

— Andrea Gibson

68. “Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.”

— Andrea Gibson

69. “How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?”

— Andrea Gibson

70. “Touch me ’til my ribs become piano keys.”

— Andrea Gibson

71. “I don’t believe we’re hateful. I think mostly we’re just asleep, but the math adds up the same.”

— Andrea Gibson

72. “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.”

— Andrea Gibson

73. “You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging ‘Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.’”

— Andrea Gibson

74. “I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.”

— Andrea Gibson

75. “I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I’d rather be left for? dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.”

— Andrea Gibson

76. “But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever.”

— Andrea Gibson

77. “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.”

— Andrea Gibson

78. “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.”

— Andrea Gibson

79. “It’s okay. Everybody’s survival looks a little bit like death sometimes.”

— Andrea Gibson

80. “I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.”

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Andrea Gibson

82. “In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you’ll write back soon. Tell me you’ll still come untethered.”

— Andrea Gibson

83. “I wish for a heart you can see straight through, for a voice that glows in the dark, and a few really good friends to say, “That’s the way to go.”

— Andrea Gibson

84. “There is no weapon more dangerous than a wound.”

— Andrea Gibson

85. “Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.”

— Andrea Gibson

86. “Hey, are you a boy or a – never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.”

— Andrea Gibson

87. “When the truth isn’t hopeful, the telling of it is.”

— Andrea Gibson

88. “Any feminist who has ever taken the high road will tell you the high road gets backed up and sometimes we need to take a detour straight through the belly of uncensored rage.”

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Andrea Gibson

90. “I suppose I love this life, in spire of my clenched fist.”

— Andrea Gibson

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

— Andrea Gibson

92. “I started talking to the stars in the sky instead. I said, “Tell me about the big bang.” The stars said, “It hurts to become.”

— Andrea Gibson

93. “Beating yourself up is never a fair fight.”

— Andrea Gibson

94. “The trauma said, ‘Don’t write this poem. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.’ But my bones said, ‘Remember the boy who dove into the Hudson River convinced he was entirely alone.’ My bones said, ‘Write the poem.”

— Andrea Gibson

95. “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.”

— Andrea Gibson

96. “So build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be. Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart, your brush, your march, your art, your poetry, your play. And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.”

— Andrea Gibson

97. “I know David argued with the chisel. I know he said, ‘Make me softer.”

— Andrea Gibson

98. “Whenever they ask why we stayed together for so long I say, “I don’t know. I just know that we cried at the exact same time in every movie. I know we blushed every day for the first two years. I know I always stole the covers and she never woke me up.”

— Andrea Gibson

99. “They want you thinking you’re bad at being a girl instead of good at being yourself. They want you to buy your blush from a store instead of letting it bloom from your butterflies. They’re telling you to blend in, like you’ve never seen how a blender works. Like they think you’ve never seen the mess from the blade.”

— Andrea Gibson

100. “When the first responders entered the Pulse Nightclub after the massacre in Orlando, they walked through the horrific scene of bodies and called out, “If you’re alive, raise your hand.” I was sweeping in a hotel in the midwest at the time but I imagine in that exact moment my hand twitched in my sleep – some unconscious part of me aware, that I had a pulse. That I was alive.”

— Andrea Gibson