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Depression starts slow.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Starts
Slow
Depression

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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'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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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 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'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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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 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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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