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

Ned Vizzini

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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
Wake
Dreams
Dream
Real
Make

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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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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'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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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.
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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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