“...you were my favorite poem and I'd read you every night knowing I might never understand every word but that's okay – ‘cause the lines of you were the closest thing to holy I'd ever heard.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“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 breat…”— Andrea Gibson, wordsfortheyear.com
“You wanna know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.”— Rudy Francisco, youtube.com
“i’m at a job interview counting the ‘likes’ i’ve said in my head & i don’t realize that i’ve peeled my left thumbnail further than its destiny intended don’t realize that it is bleeding.”— Melissa Lozada-Oliva, buttonpoetry.com
“I would kiss you in the middle of a lightning storm. I would kiss you knowing it would kill me, cause I'd rather be left for dead than left to wonder what thunder sounds like.”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“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. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with t…”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.com
“Don’t google your name. Ever. Don’t ‘search’ for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don’t let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don’t edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn’t come her…”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.com
“To love me is to love a haunted house. It’s fun to visit once a year but no one wants to live there.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com