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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

Ned Vizzini

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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New York City
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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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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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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 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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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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I just want to not be me.
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We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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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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