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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Gets
Hope
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Better

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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 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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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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Time is a person-made concept.
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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Depression starts slow.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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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