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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.

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

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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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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 just want to not be me.
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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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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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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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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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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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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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 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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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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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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