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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

Ned Vizzini

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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
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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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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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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 wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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