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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.

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
Gets
Knowing
Strong
Done
Enough

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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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—
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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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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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Depression starts slow.
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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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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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