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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

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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
Profound
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Middle
Things
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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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'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
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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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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?
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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