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I just want to not be me.

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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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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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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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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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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able 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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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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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