Our Numbered Days - Neil Holborn

• “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” Excerpt: Ballad of the Bruised Lung
• “ I think that the genes for being an artist and mentally ill aren’t just related, they are the same gene” Excerpt: Joey
• “If anyone is gonna kill me, it should be me. No, I won’t kiss you, it’s the wrong season.” / “I was trying to kiss you and blame someone else. Kissed the sidewalk instead of you. Kissed anyone I actually love. It’s so hard to love you” Excerpt: Not Dead
• “ I don’t go out when it’s raining. I don’t go out anyway, but that’s because of the anxiety. The anxiety comes out when it is and isn’t snowing.” Excerpt: All Harvestmen Are Missing A Leg
• “And when your fourth love leaves you, you will want to kill yourself but you won’t. You no longer think of suicide as a house you will build one day. Your fourth love, who is your first real love, who brought you peace when your whole body was a gun: when she leaves you, ask your roommate to hide the knives” / “you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of loving one another, and in those moments you will be lying, your heart screaming I CAN I CAN I CAN. But you’ll stay silent.” Excerpt: Future Tense
• “she loved me once, though it wasn’t for very long, though it was distracted, though it shouldn’t have happened, once, she loved me.” Excerpt: Our Numbered Days
• “This is what it’s like to kiss someone until you are no longer sorry you kissed them. ” / “You keep calling yourself empty and you’re starting to believe it.” / “This is what it’s like to turn a suicide note into a paper airplane. This is what it’s like to turn a life full of exclamation marks into a blank page.” / “ This is what it’s like to say goodnight and mean goodbye.” Excerpt: You Can Look
• “Depression wasn’t an endless grey sky, it was no sky at all.” Excerpt: The First Snow of the Year