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.

Ned Vizzini

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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.

mom eye morning

Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is ma... by Ned Vizzini

Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.

drs life-is

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

perfect life people

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done. by Ned Vizzini

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

feel-better feelings jobs

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep.... by Ned Vizzini

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

wake-up want depression

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

people television thinking

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

bed long people

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?

jealous book thinking

I think you run out of 'I love yous by Ned Vizzini

I think you run out of 'I love yous

running thinking

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop... by Ned Vizzini

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

profound-truth middle profound

That made me happy. That was my Anchor. by Ned Vizzini

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

anchors made

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.

want brain thinking

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed. by Ned Vizzini

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.

deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me. by Ned Vizzini

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

special believe years

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.

eye looks thinking

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.

freak thinking

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.

construction maps brain

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts. by Ned Vizzini

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

ruts stuck brain

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wro... by Ned Vizzini

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.

fine wells

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody? by Ned Vizzini

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

stills