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161 " you never wish on shooting starsyou wish on the onesthat have the courage to shine where they are,no matter how dark the night. "
― Andrea Gibson , Pole Dancing To Gospel Hymns
162 " Storms are bornfrom the same sky we write hymns to when the sun shines. "
163 " Do you know they’ve found landminesin broken women’s souls? "
164 " forests may be gorgeousbut there’s nothing more alivethan a tree that grows in a cemetery "
165 " We have cried so hard our tears have left scars on our cheekbones "
166 " There is no weapon more dangerous than a wound, and being wounded there are things we have all done that we would almost would rather die that face into, but no one heals what they refuse to look at. So when asked if I believe in “good people”, I say I believe in people who are committed to knowing their own wounds intimately. People who read their wound’s diaries, who follow their wounds out windows, down ladders asking “Where are you going? What do you need? How can I intervene before a cruel thing is done or said? "
― Andrea Gibson , Take Me with You
167 " you don't lose a personlike a set of keys because you don't find them againand you can still get to where you're going. "
― Andrea Gibson , Lord of the Butterflies
168 " And every memory of you is a halt,a clot where all my blood-rushing veins just stop,and most days I can’t remember how to bleed. "
169 " feelings were always smarter things than thoughts. "
170 " I think of happy when I think of you. "
171 " Bliss is the moments you're with me / when you're gone my life hurts like hell / but I'll do anything to me happy even if it means setting you free to be with someone else "
172 " Just to be clear, I don't want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there better be a thousand separate heavens for all my flying parts. "
173 " This life is built almost entirely of love and losing, isn’t it? "
― Andrea Gibson , The Madness Vase
174 " 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. "
175 " I'm not a pessimist, I'm just thinking about how she said, 'I love you,' while I was having a panic attack and how that means she's probably a liar and how she'll likely cut off her own nose to prove me wrong and how then she won't smell my pheromones and how then we'll both die of lesbian bed death. "
176 " You are the best thing that has every happened to you. "
177 " I wonder how many people have died driving while checking how many likes their Facebook status got. I wonder how much life has been lost in the bloody ditch of approval, how many skulls have swallowed windshields trying to see if they are worthy of applause, worthy of their own heart's hungry beat. "
178 " 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
179 " 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. "
180 " Tell me how they will no longerhave to hide beneath burkas.How you will wrap them in lace‘til they are all as conveniently rape-ableas women in the States. "