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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

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
Silly
Littles
Little
Heart
Thing

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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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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
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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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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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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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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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Depression starts slow.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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