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

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

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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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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 had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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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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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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 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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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.
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