Neil Hilborn Quotes & Sayings

When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and its gonna go so poorly. — Neil Hilborn

It's unfortunate that your offspring make people wish for a dystopian future in which euthanasia is a universally beloved form of birth control, but when elderly women literally everywhere are better parents than you, perhaps it's time to hang up the baby-making spurs. — Neil Hilborn

This is what it's like to say goodnight and mean goodbye. — Neil Hilborn

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. — Neil Hilborn

She imagines me full of dead things, re-consuming that which I am trying to grow out of. — Neil Hilborn

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

Imagine if fire extinguishers were full
of snow. Imagine the fun we could have. — Neil Hilborn

I am not helping because I have already assumed so much, and I would rather let her suffer than be wrong. — Neil Hilborn

Things that I Hope Are True about Heaven

That the radio always plays what would have been your favourite songs. That there's always coffee if you want it. That you're there. That it's real. — Neil Hilborn

The future is a blue sky and a full tank of gas. — Neil Hilborn

Kid, you'll be fine. — Neil Hilborn

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 its perfect. — Neil Hilborn

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. We — Neil Hilborn

How to kill yourself without hurting anyone.

Don't. — Neil Hilborn

You will remind yourself, she will remind you, you will remind each other, that this is for the best, that you are physically incapable of loving one another, — Neil Hilborn

I can pinpoint the session that brought me back to the world. That session cost $75. $75 is two weeks of groceries. It's a month of bus fare. It's not even a school years worth of new shoes. It took weeks of $75 to get to the one saved my life. We both had parents that believed us when we said we weren't OK, but mine could afford to do something about it. I wonder how many kids like Joey wanted to die and were unlucky enough to actually pull it off. How many of those kids have someone who cared about them but also had to pay rent? I'm so lucky that right now i'm not describing Joey's funeral. — Neil Hilborn

...and I am sitting in this park watching an old couple almost cry together, and I want this to be the most important thing I do all year. — Neil Hilborn

The first time I saw her,
Everything in my head went quiet. — Neil Hilborn

my house only felt like a home underwater, in floods; my father was an astronaut because to me stars or the distant flashing of satellites seemed closer than wherever he was; when — Neil Hilborn

but it would be nice to say It's raining only on my head rather than I have a chemical imbalance in my brain or I just remembered that someone I love will die before I do. — Neil Hilborn

I will whisper your name
From the cracks in the canyon rocks

And you will know that this is heaven,
Knowing that someone will always remember

Your irises and where you hid your love
Letters and why you could never speak

In anything but short sentences. — Neil Hilborn

Depression wasn't an endless grey sky, it was no sky at all. I've got to go somewhere. I've got to go. It — Neil Hilborn