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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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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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'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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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Depression starts slow.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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