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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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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Time
Asleep
Nightmare
Depression
Wake
Didn
Better
Much
Really

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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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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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