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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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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Head
Bigs
Ever
Much
Never
Rage
Angry
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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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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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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.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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I just want to not be me.
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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