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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

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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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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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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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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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