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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
Real
Make
Wake
Dreams
Dream

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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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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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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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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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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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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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