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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
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New York City
New York
Thing
Silly
Littles
Little
Heart

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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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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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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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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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My brain was all right back then it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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