Ned Vizzini: Doing

“Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.”

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”

“That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.”

“The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.”

“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”

“They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Do you even know who the enemy is?"
"I think… it's me".”