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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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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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...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.
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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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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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.
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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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