Ned Vizzini Quotes
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I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
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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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Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.
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Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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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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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
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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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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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She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
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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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I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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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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They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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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 think you run out of 'I love yous
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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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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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I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.
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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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I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.