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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
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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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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.
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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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I thought, The flowers, save the flowers... I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
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We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
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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.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing
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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.'
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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.
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Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
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Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
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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!
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Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.
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