Darby Hudson Quotes

A small red spider scurries across the glow of my phone’s screen. For a second I think I can screenshot it, then remember the loveliest things can never be saved.

Shit Cafés I started avoiding beautiful places as they attracted people. Too many people: The seaside Botanic gardens Quaint country towns... So, I started going to shit cafes, sat in back alleyways. Until the shit cafés closed down because no one was going

If you try and go to sleep, you can’t go to sleep: you’ve just got to let it happen. Same goes with flying.

I rarely check my bank balance – instant anxiety attack. I never have enough, I think, as I open my wallet full of nothing but leaves and pebbles to pay for watching the moon.

I often don’t know what I think until I write or say it – until it becomes separate from myself.

Money buys you a roof, poetry buys you a floor so you don’t fall through the nights

Don’t stare up at the sky for too long or you’ll fall into it. So, one day I packed my bags and stood outside staring upward.

One day I’ll meet my reputation in person. And I’ll ask it if it would like to have an ice-cream with me up my favourite tree… and of course, it will tell me to get fucked.

You make me want to go out on a boat and paint light on a river

Sometimes A Fuck Up Isn’t Really A Fuck Up It’s the angel on the shoulder of the devil on your shoulder.

Today I had a lovely afternoon nap in the Melbourne cemetery. Just practising.

time is loaded with endless night; sleep is a velvet gunshot to the head a star splattered sky.