Quotes by Ned Vizzini

About Ned Vizzini:

Ned Vizzini is the basis of the film of the same name.
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People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that age and feeling completely and utterly powerless. You know, there's so many things you wanna do and so many things you're told you can't do.

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Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?'

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

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We wear our problems diffrently

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I am a guy," I say. "And I hate boys," she says. "But a guy's different," I say. "Maybe a little," she says.

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And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.

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

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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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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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Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth a...

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I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

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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.

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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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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 ultim...

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I'm waiting for her to say "Craig, what you need to do is X" and for the Shift to occur. I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year...

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

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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.

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I’m not better, you know. The weight hasn’t left my head. I feel how easily I could fall back into it, lie down and not eat, waste my time and curse wasting my time, look at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron’s, look at Nia and...

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What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this awful realization that I was awake. It hit me like a brick in the groin." "Like a brick in the groin, I see." "I didn't want to wake up...

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It's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. ... you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.

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Author Bio

  • NameNed Vizzini
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornApril 4, 1981
  • DiedDecember 19, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksIt's Kind Of A Funny Story