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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
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New York City
New York
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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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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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Depression starts slow.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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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.
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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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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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