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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.
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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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 going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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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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Depression starts slow.
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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 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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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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