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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

Ned Vizzini

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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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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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Depression starts slow.
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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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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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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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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've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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