Ned Vizzini Quotes
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I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
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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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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 waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".
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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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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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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'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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Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.
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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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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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I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
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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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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.