Top 100 Quotes About Ned Vizzini
#1. 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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#2. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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#3. Kid like you, got money, got a family, you'll be out in a few days.
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#4. I like you a lot. Because you're funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that's not a good reason, but I can't help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [ ... ] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face -
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#5. 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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#6. I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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#7. 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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#9. I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early - at eight - with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. ( ... ) Since I was a kid."
"Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
"Right.
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#13. The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis.
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#17. I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
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#18. 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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#19. They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
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#20. 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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#21. People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.
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#22. Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?
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#23. I'd feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and y words and my soul.
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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. Never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked.
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#28. 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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#29. A doctor comes into 22. She has long, dark hair and a pudgy face and bright green eyes. "Hey." "I'm Dr. Data." "Dr. Data?" "Yes." Huh. I want to ask her if she's an android, but that wouldn't be very respectful; and besides, I'm not up to it.
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#30. One quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it.
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#32. Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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#33. I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus.
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#34. Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children.
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#35. Doc, I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, and I want to put this bayonet through my stomach,
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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#39. 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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#40. But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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#42. That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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#43. If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.
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#44. 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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#45. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
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#49. A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.
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#50. I'm smart but not enough
just smart enough to have problems.
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#51. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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#52. My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol.
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#53. 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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#54. Rudy is a mutt; my father says he's a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must've been some wild dog sex.
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#55. That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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#56. 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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#57. I was still getting 93's, but what the hell, someone had to get them.
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#58. You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed
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#59. Never go up against a Sicilian when death, is on the line.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..........(thump)
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#60. 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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#62. Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself." "Okay." "Only then does healing take place." "All right.
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#63. Nia, it wasn't about you." "Are you sure?" I look down, and the answer is right there in my chest and it's resounding. "Yes. I have bigger problems than you.
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#64. I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
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#65. 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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#66. The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person.
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#67. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.
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#71. 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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#72. It started with blogs; now, through social media, anyone who is active on the internet creates a digital projection of themselves for public consumption. We are all stars, all heroes in our own online productions. What does this do for our authenticity? It destroys it.
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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. I'll fail."
"At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life.
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#78. I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me.
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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. She puts on her poker face; I don't have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face.
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#83. 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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#84. She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
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#85. Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question.
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#86. Great, excellent," the guy had said. "You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci.
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#87. '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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#88. I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.
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#89. Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.
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#90. You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.
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#91. 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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#93. And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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#94. Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.
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#95. 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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#96. Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think ... it's me".
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#97. 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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#98. Every tounge bit had another word to say.
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#99. SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think.
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#100. Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend.
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