Top 100 Ned Vizzini Quotes
#1. Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
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#2. But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. He adopts the "do nothing" method of therapy. You tell him your problems and he, ah, does nothing.
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#3. 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.
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#4. The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!
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#5. They take away your options and all you can do is live, and it's just like Humble said: I'm not afraid of dying; I'm afraid of living. I was afraid before, but I'm afraid even more now that I'm a public joke.
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#6. I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.
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#7. The people are Anchors," I say.
"People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.
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#8. They're sort of ancillary, friends. I mean, they're important - everybody knows that; the TV tells you so - but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.
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#9. I know that you're not supposed to think about dancing - what is that stupid expression, Sing like no one's listening, dance like no one's watching? - whatever.
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#10. Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself." "Okay." "Only then does healing take place." "All right.
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#12. I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that probably you only get in preschool.
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#13. You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed
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#14. So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.
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#15. I have an issue with dogs - I can't pick up after them. It's nothing personal; it just makes me feel like a servant.
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#16. I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
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#17. Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think ... it's me".
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#18. My one friend is a screwup - a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.
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#19. You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.
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#20. Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
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#21. I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.
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#22. 'Game of Thrones' cares about children. Children are heirs. There's no hemming and hawing about how they're desensitized to violence or they cost too much to send to college. They're a blessing - in many ways the only blessing - and even the evil ones have parents who love them.
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#23. 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 think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.
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#25. 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.
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#26. I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me.
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#27. I'll fail."
"At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.
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#28. They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important - everybody knows that; the TV tells you so - but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. All you have to do is talk to people, and this was back when I could talk to anybody.
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#29. I always start a book thinking that it can be something other than first-person present, and I always come back to first-person present. It's just the easiest way.
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#30. When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: "Eulalia." And like an idiot, that's what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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#31. Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?
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#32. Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?
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#33. There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think "breathe, breathe" all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die.
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#34. ( ... ) Since I was a kid."
"Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
"Right.
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#35. I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
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#36. 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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#38. I don't want to brag, but if I go through this, and I go back to camp, I'll have something unique to talk about. I can be like, 'Hey, not only am I not a virgin, I lost my virginity to a frog-headed exotic dancer.' Will that be something to brag about or something to be ashamed of?
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#39. I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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#40. Kid like you, got money, got a family, you'll be out in a few days.
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#41. 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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#42. I'm smart but not enough
just smart enough to have problems.
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#43. I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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.
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#47. But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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#48. The sweating is awful. It's not as bad as the not eating, but it's weird - cold sweat, all over my forehead, having to be wiped off every two minutes, smelling like skin concentrate. People notice. It's one of the few things people notice.
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#49. Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children.
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#50. Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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#51. One quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it.
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#52. 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.
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#53. He asked the class how many of us were taking computer science, and everybody but me and this one girl who didn't speak English raised their hands.
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#54. We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.
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#55. I jumped in the mosh pit, and some kid punched me in the chin, so I swung on ceiling pipes and kicked people in the head.
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#56. Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.
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#57. You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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#58. I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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#59. Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.
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#60. Deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.
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#61. You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a book that you can't in a similarly targeted movie.
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#62. Bobby sips his coffee. If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead.
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#63. Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.
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#64. Its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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#67. And I know about psychologists, when they're writing down what you're saying they're really writing down how much money they're going to get when they sell their latest yacht, because they're all yuppies with no respect. ...
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#68. When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.
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#69. Up next is Noelle.
'Hey, girl!'
'Don't you dare start calling me that. This is very nice of you to do.
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#70. You are blessed with a good mind. You just have to have confidence in it and talk when people call on you.
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#71. I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement
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#72. And I mouth into the phone, I love you, 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.
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#73. I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
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#74. I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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#75. That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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#76. When we got together we would start projects: an alarm clock torn apart and distributed over a wall, a stop-motion video of Lego people having sex, a Web site for pictures of toilets.
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#77. 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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#78. Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.
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#80. And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.
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#81. I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it.
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#82. You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before ...
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#83. 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.
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#84. I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?
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#85. You deserve them because you chose them.
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#87. There are better versions of me, Jeremy. It's not like with people. With people you can argue and have tests and music reviews and wars to decide who's better, but with software, it's pretty clear. I get evolved beyond my version number, and then I'm useless.
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#88. What were you tring to do, soldier?
I was trying to eat, sir!
And what happened?
I got caught thinking about some crap, sir!
What kind of crap?
How I want to live less than my parent's dog.
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#89. Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
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#90. Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.
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#91. How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time?
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#92. It is five in the morning. I have woken up without any alarm. I have woken up because the thoughts are so loud, and none of them mean me well.
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#93. Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.
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#94. I used to not want to call them shrinks, but now that I've been through so many, I feel entitled to it. It's an adult term, and it's disrespectful, and I'm more than two thirds adult and I'm pretty disrespectful, so what the hell.
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#95. Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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#96. I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted
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#97. Yeah, and she's really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don't look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect.
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#98. My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.
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#99. 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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#100. 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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