Quote

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

Ned Vizzini

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Wake
Dreams
Dream
Real
Make

More quotes by Ned Vizzini

Image
You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
Ned Vizzini
Image
So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
Ned Vizzini
Image
And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
Ned Vizzini
Image
We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
Ned Vizzini
Image
My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
Ned Vizzini
Image
No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
Ned Vizzini
Image
That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Depression starts slow.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Nobody had told me I was common.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini