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.”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST

“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.”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST

“Money buys you a roof,
poetry buys you a floor
so you don’t fall through
the nights”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST

“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.”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST

“You make me want to go out on a boat and paint light on a river”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST

“I often don’t know what I think
until I write or say it –
until it becomes separate from myself.”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST

“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”
― Darby Hudson, A Mountain of Tiny Courages

“time is loaded with endless night;
sleep is a velvet gunshot to the head
a star splattered sky.”
― Darby Hudson, Falling Upwards

“Sometimes A Fuck Up Isn’t Really A Fuck Up

It’s the angel
on the shoulder
of the devil
on your shoulder.”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST

“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.”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST

“Today I had a lovely afternoon nap in the Melbourne cemetery.
Just practising.”
― Darby Hudson, Falling Upwards

“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.”
― Darby Hudson, 100 POINTS OF ID TO PROVE I DON'T EXIST