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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.

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
Littles
Little
Yous
Everything
Diluted
Every
Although
Time
Gets
Love
Days
Think
Running
Thinking
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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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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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 going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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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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I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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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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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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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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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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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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