Ned Vizzini Quotes
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The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.
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The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.
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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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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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Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and laid in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.
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Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
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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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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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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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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.
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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 want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.
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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.
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I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.
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I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.