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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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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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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 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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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'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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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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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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