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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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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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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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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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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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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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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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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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Depression starts slow.
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I just want to not be me.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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