Quotes from bookIt's Kind of a Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004. Ned Vizzini later died by suicide on December 19, 2013. The book received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.A film adaptation, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, was released in the United States on October 8, 2010.
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.”
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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 feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.”
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“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
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Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
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“You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?”
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“I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.”
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“She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)”
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“Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.”
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