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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.
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Somebody
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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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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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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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.
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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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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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