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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.
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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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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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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I just want to not be me.
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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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