Ned Vizzini Quotes
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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 work. And I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.
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I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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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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Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about 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'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.
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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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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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Every tounge bit had another word to say.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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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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We wear our problems diffrently
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Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.