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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
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New York City
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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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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. 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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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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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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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