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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

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
Wake
Didn
Better
Much
Really
Time
Asleep
Nightmare
Depression

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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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Depression starts slow.
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I just want to not be me.
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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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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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