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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 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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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'm going to be here until I'm cured? Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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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.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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I just want to not be me.
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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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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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Of course I wasn't abused. If I were things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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