Ned Vizzini quotes - page 3

The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die. (Ned Vizzini)
I wasn't gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common. View quote
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It's tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won't be able to deal with it. View quote
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out. View quote
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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it. View quote
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up. View quote
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deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me. View quote
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Every tounge bit had another word to say. View quote
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. View quote
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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were? View quote
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade? (Ned Vizzini)
Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? View quote
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It's a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn't want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do. View quote
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I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous. View quote
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant. View quote
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. View quote
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People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. View quote
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody? View quote
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The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person. View quote
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Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me". View quote
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm. (Ned Vizzini)
We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope. View quote
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine. View quote
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany. View quote
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(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right. View quote
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