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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
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New York City
New York
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I just want to not be me.
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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.
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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 had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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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 wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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 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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
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