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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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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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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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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.
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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?
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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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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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