Ned Vizzini Quotes
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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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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 not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.
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Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.
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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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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.
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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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She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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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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You all right, man?' This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man. Ah...' I stumble. Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out.
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I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.
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How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?
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Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
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I think you run out of 'I love yous
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Time is a person-made concept.
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I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.
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I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
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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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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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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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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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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.