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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
Feeling
Forget
Feelings
Feel
Wasted
Feels
Useless
Kind
Awful
Broken
Dead

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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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