Quote

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

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
Problem
Enough
Smart
Problems

More quotes by Ned Vizzini

Image
Nobody had told me I was common.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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?
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
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
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
its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
Ned Vizzini
Image
I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
Ned Vizzini
Image
That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
Ned Vizzini
Image
And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
Ned Vizzini
Image
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—
Ned Vizzini
Image
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
Ned Vizzini