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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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Time is a person-made concept.
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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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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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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'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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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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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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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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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