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Lord of the Butterflies
Andrea Gibson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don’t Love myself back.”
“When all the good in you starts arguing with all the bad in you about who you really are, never let the bad in you make the better case.”
“It isn't that you don't like boys. It's that you only like boys you want to be”
“There will be music for you one day.”
“So at 12:31pm, when he decided not to- when he came down, when the road opened- I did, too, my whole world, my whole mind went home with living proof of what I'd only before known in theory: that we are truly not alone in this, that our veins are absolutely strings tied to other people's kites, that our lives are connected. That my butterflies are never gone, they're just flying around in someone else's belly sometimes'.”
“Do you know science just proved an atom can exist in two places at the same time? No one is ever only at the scene of their crimes. Each of us is always also somewhere holy.”
“you don't lose a person like a set of keys because you don't find them again and you can still get to where you're going.”
“Come tender as the trees forgiving the books for asking to be made.”
“Your life each time airport security screams, Pink or blue? Pink or blue? trying to figure out which machine setting to run you through. Choosing your life and how that made you into someone who now finds it easy to explain your gender by saying you are happiest on the road, when you’re not here or there, but in-between, that yellow line coming down the center of it all like a goddamn sunbeam.”
“The closest I might ever come to war is the turning of my head. Apathy is intimate, like singing a lullaby to a grenade, then drinking yourself to sleep while it sneaks out the window to explode a boy.”
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life, truth, poetry, wisdom, grieving, love, death, books, suicide, trans, loss, poem, hope, perseverance, grief, self, nonbinary, unrequited-love, identity, lgbt