Ned Vizzini citations

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

“That made me happy. That was my Anchor.”

“She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.”

“And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.”

“I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me.”

“I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.”

“The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.”

“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.”

“You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?"
"Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.”

“I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.”

“deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.”

“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.”

“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."
"And what is that nightmare, Craig?"
"Life.”

“I don't-" I shake my head. (…)
"What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.”

“They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.”

“Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.”

“Every tounge bit had another word to say.”

“And when you say the truth you get stronger.”

“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”

“So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.”

“And I mouth into the phone,, in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well in the next life. If there is one. If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable.”

“I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?”

“My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.”

“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.”

“You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?”

“Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.”

“A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.”

“One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.”

“Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others.”