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“I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.”
― Andrea Gibson

“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage: Poems

“This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.”
― Andrea Gibson, When The Bough Breaks

“It is incredible what kind of mess I can make
with a nine-hour drive and an unanswered text.”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: 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

“When 28,000 buildings fall do you know how many walls are no longer there?”
― Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

“I know now it doesn't matter how well I say grace
if I am sitting at a table where I am offering no bread to eat”
― Andrea Gibson

“I know the difference between what I can't do and what I refuse to do.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework, see? Nothing. Our existence she said is the same way. You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6 pm you make the same mistake over and over you stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you’ll forget why.”
― Phil Kaye

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

“Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.”
― Andrea Gibson

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
― Abraham Sutzkever

“I promise to tidy up before company arrives, wouldn't want my socks and daydreams all over the carpet”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage: Poems

“Oh, Brother. No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks.”
― Sarah Kay, No Matter the Wreckage

“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.”
― richard siken

“You will remind yourself, she will remind you, you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of loving one another,”
― Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days

“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”
― Debbie Macomber

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― Richard Bach

“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
― Richard Bach

“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions

“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are simply toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren't inherently bad people, but they aren't the right people for us.”
― Daniell Koepke

“You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women

“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.”
― Sappho

“What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.”
― Sappho

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have... is now”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You