Ned Vizzini Quotes
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Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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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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(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.
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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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I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".
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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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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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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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I think you run out of 'I love yous
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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 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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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'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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We wear our problems diffrently
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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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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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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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That made me happy. That was my Anchor.
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I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
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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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Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
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Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.