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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

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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.
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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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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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.
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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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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.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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I just want to not be me.
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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 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.
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