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

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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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'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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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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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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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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I just want to not be me.
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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'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.
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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