Quote

My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.

Ned Vizzini

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Ruts
Stuck
Brain
Didn
Back
Right

More quotes by Ned Vizzini

Image
I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
Ned Vizzini
Image
And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Time is a person-made concept.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Depression starts slow.
Ned Vizzini
Image
That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I just want to not be me.
Ned Vizzini
Image
(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
Ned Vizzini
Image
A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
Ned Vizzini
Image
But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
Ned Vizzini