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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.
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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Depression starts slow.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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