Ned Vizzini Quotes - Page 4

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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. 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." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." "Yes.

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  Dream, Wake Up, Realization

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• 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.

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  People, World, Sanctuary

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• What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. 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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  Home, Sleep, Trying

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• (...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

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  Kids, Back When

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• Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

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  Doctors

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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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  Depression, Suicide, Lying

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

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  Alive, Want, Able

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• 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.

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  Problem, Funny Story, Mines

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• 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.

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  Mom, Smart, Thinking

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• See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

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  Mean, Compliments You, People

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

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  Ashamed

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• I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

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  Distance, Doctors, Hands

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• Dad nods, looks me dead in the eyes; slowly and regretfully, he banishes all the smiling and joking from his face, and for once he's just my dad, watching his son who has fallen so low.

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  Dad, Eye, Son

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

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  Stills

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• The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

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  Giving, Brain, Enough Time

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• I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

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  School, People, Able

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

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  Dies, Ifs

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• I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

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  Thinking, Chemistry, Found

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• We wear our problems diffrently

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  Problem

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• How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

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  Sex, Moving, Fancy

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• Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

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  Book, Adults, Lessons

  "Geek Becomes Hero In Ya Novel The Other Normals: Q&A With Ned Vizzini". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. October 1, 2012.

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• A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

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  Reading, Book, Grew

  "Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini open up about 'House of Secrets'". Interview With Carolyn Kellogg, www.latimes.com. April 18, 2013.

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• That's worst than gonerreha, man!

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  Men, Worst

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• I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

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  Lasts, Moments, Last Day

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• 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.

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  Trying, Able, Tvs

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