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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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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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Depression starts slow.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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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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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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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 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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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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