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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
Writer
New York City
New York
People
Ready
Somebody
Open
Rather
Perfect
Someone
Life
Explode
World
Screwed

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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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I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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 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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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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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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I just want to not be me.
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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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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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.
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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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