Best 92 quotes of Ned Vizzini on MyQuotes

Ned Vizzini

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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?

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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?

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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?

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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—

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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?

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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?

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' "It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

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

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

  • By Anonym
    Ned Vizzini

    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.