Quotes from Ned Vizzini

Take these verbs and enjoy them. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live.

Do you even know who the enemy is? I think…it's me.

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

If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead.

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.

'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.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

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.

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.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

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.

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.

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

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.

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 and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.

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.

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

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

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

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

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

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.

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.