Quote

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

Ned Vizzini

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Grew
Pretty
Books
Reading
Book
Like
Brutal

More quotes by Ned Vizzini

Image
It’s tough to get out of bed I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
Ned Vizzini
Image
It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
Ned Vizzini
Image
Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Nobody had told me I was common.
Ned Vizzini
Image
I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
Ned Vizzini
Image
The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
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.
Ned Vizzini
Image
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
Ned Vizzini
Image
And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
Ned Vizzini
Image
If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
Ned Vizzini
Image
(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
Ned Vizzini