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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

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
Kind
Awful
Broken
Dead
Feeling
Forget
Feelings
Feel
Wasted
Feels
Useless

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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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.
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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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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'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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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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'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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