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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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New York City
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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.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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.
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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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.
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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.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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I just want to not be me.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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