Kaelyn Merrithew

“Marvel at how she,
the patient gardener, the bringer of sleep,
she who draws the bath and lights the candles,
she who made you someone who could make
himself into someone, she made you want
to live more than anything else, and now
she makes you want to leave the world
because you have seen it.”
― Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days

“Do you wanna leave soon?
No, I want enough time to be in love with everything...
And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”
― Marina Keegan

“So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back.
Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency.
Because there's a bedtime.
Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and
If you don't respond soon,
I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“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.”
― Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days