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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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New York City
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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 had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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 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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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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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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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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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