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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
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Tricks
Another
Mouth
Going
Intention
Never
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Exactly
Shrinks
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Shake
Head
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Shakes

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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'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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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 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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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