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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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New York City
New York
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Kids
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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