“I am not saying you will find the meaning of life in other people. I am saying that other people are the life to which you provide the meaning.”
Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days
“I know tomorrow is going to come because I’ve seen it. Sunrise is going to come, all you have to do is wake up.”
Neil Hilborn, The Future
“I want to thank you for making all the love songs mean something again.”
Neil Hilborn, The Future
“I saw the future. I did. And in it, I was alive.”
Neil Hilborn, The Future
“What’s more punk rock than living despite all that which has tried to make you not?”
Neil Hilborn, The Future
“Someday I’m gonna have a child. She’s gonna have eyes like mine and such small hands. Just like she’ll need me alive then, she needs me alive now; I can’t say goodbye before I’ve had a chance to say hello.”
Neil Hilborn, The Future
“Yes, there is a place where someone loves you both before and after they learn what you are. That place is called the world, and if you want to live it’s really the only option.”
Neil Hilborn, The Future
“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, Our Numbered Days
“Once it snowed, and it wasn’t that I felt great, because I felt awful, but awful is better than nothing. Depression wasn’t an endless grey sky, it was no sky at all.”
Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days
“At night, she’d lay in bed and watch me turn all the lights off and on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off. She’d close her eyes and imagine that days and nights were passing in front of her.”
Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days