Ned Vizzini Quotes
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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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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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Time is a person-made concept.
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Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.
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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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(...) 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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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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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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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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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A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
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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 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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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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Every tounge bit had another word to say.
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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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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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Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.
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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.