Our Numbered Days

by Neil Hilborn

Pretension can look like intelligence if you squint hard enough or wear glasses.

When you’re dumb enough for long enough, you’re gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they’re gonna love you anyway, and it’s gonna go so poorly.

I think that the genes for being an artist and mentally ill aren’t just related, they are the same gene, but try telling that to a bill collector.

The worst lie is to say good-bye. Where are you going that I won’t follow? Calvin Forbes

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Ambrose Bierce

Humility is getting shook on by a 4’11” boy who is eleven years your junior.

now I just think about who else is kissing her. I can’t breathe because he only kisses her once. He doesn’t care if it’s perfect. I want her back so bad, I leave the door unlocked. I leave the lights on.

You will never be more wrong than the first time you say “I love you.” You will mean it, sure, but you’ll still be lying.

Things that I Hope Are True about Heaven That the radio always plays what would have been your favorite songs. That there’s always coffee if you want it. That you’re there. That it’s real.

I am just carbon and bad timing.

Don’t Give Up the Ship When the winds are picking up, when the sea around you turns from blue to grey, when the sky grows veins of light before you, let your arms become sails. Keep the lighthouse at your back.

No one ever taught me how to pray, so I won’t. Instead, I’ll just say this: god bless the shape your head leaves in my pillow; god bless your insatiable hair; god bless you, though the hour is late, for you have come to me at last.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Van Gogh