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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.
Ned Vizzini
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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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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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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 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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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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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 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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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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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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