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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

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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
Sometimes
Brain
Giving
Maybe
Never
Happened
Times
Hope
Jars
Give
Shift
Back
Hasn
Enough
Supposed

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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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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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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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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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 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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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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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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.
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