Ned Vizzini Quotes & Sayings

'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. — Ned Vizzini

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. — 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. — Ned Vizzini

Depression starts slow. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

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. — 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. — Ned Vizzini

Nobody had told me I was common. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do? — Ned Vizzini

The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important — Ned Vizzini

Great, excellent," the guy had said. "You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci. — Ned Vizzini

See, because being Coll is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. They happen because of it. They depend on it. — Ned Vizzini

Yes. Now, you might not want to become so friendly with your fellow patients on the floor." "Why not?" "That can distract people from the healing process." "How?" "This is a hospital. It's not a place to make friends. Friends are wonderful, but this place is about you and making you feel better." "But ... " I fidget. "I respect Humble. I respect Bobby. I have more respect for them after a day and a half than I do for most people ... in the world, really." "Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself. — Ned Vizzini

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed. — Ned Vizzini

You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed — Ned Vizzini

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing - homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away. — Ned Vizzini

Honor? What do you care about honor? Honor gets people killed!' 'At least they die for something,' I say, and he doesn't protest further. — Ned Vizzini

Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children. — Ned Vizzini

Do you know about lock picking?"
"I'm sure it's like sex."
"I'm sure it's not like sex."
"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? — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living. — 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 - — Ned Vizzini

It's funny how people ask that as soon as they get you on the phone. I think it's a byproduct of cell phones: people - girls and moms especially - want to nail you down in physical space. The fact is that you could be anywhere on a cell phone and it shouldn't be important where you are. But it becomes the first thing people ask. — Ned Vizzini

She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.) — Ned Vizzini

I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

I was happy about different things. I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here. — Ned Vizzini

The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person. — Ned Vizzini

I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous. — Ned Vizzini

I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted — 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. — 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. — Ned Vizzini

You all right, man?'
This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man.
Ah ... ' I stumble.
Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out. — Ned Vizzini

And you shouldn't assume that everything is always about you. — Ned Vizzini

So when I ran out of the final bottle of Zoloft, I didn't take any more. I didn't call Dr. Barney either. I just threw the bottle away and said Okay, if I ever feel bad again, I'll remember how good I felt that night on the Brooklyn Bridge. Pills were for wimps, and this was over; I was done; I was back to me. — Ned Vizzini

You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away. — Ned Vizzini

I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me. — Ned Vizzini

Every tounge bit had another word to say. — 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? — Ned Vizzini

You are blessed with a good mind. You just have to have confidence in it and talk when people call on you. — Ned Vizzini

This was all an excuse, I think. I was doing fine. I had a 93 average and I was holding my head above water. I had good friends and a loving family. And because I needed to be the center of attention, because I needed something more, I ended up here, wallowing in myself, trying to convince everybody around me that I have some kind of ... disease. I don't have any disease. I keep pacing. Depression isn't a disease. It's a pretext for being a prima donna. Everybody knows that. My friends know it; my principal knows it. The sweating has started again. I can feel the Cycling roaring up in my brain. I haven't done anything right. What have I done, made a bunch of little pictures? That doesn't count as anything. I'm finished. My principal just called me and I hung up on him and didn't call back. I'm finished. I'm expelled. I'm finished. — 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. — Ned Vizzini

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say. — Ned Vizzini

We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we're, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And then we get told that having a little bit of this attitude is called balls, and that balls are good, and we kind of take it from there — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

Let's concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble, says the psychologist. — Ned Vizzini

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

I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living, — 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? — Ned Vizzini

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

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. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn't know I had that power. — Ned Vizzini

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

I'll fail."
"At schoool.""Failing at school is failing at life. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

ARE THOSE FRIGHTENING THINGS THAT APPEAR WHEN WE TAKE OUR MIND OFF OUR GOALS; DREAMS ARE ONLY DREAMS UNTIL YOU WAKE UP AND MAKE THEM REAL; THINGS I HAVE TO DO TODAY: 1) BREATHE IN 2) BREATHE OUT. — Ned Vizzini

her cheeks a slight Asian red; — Ned Vizzini

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

Now put down only what you actually had to do in the event." "What I had to do?" "Right. Because there are no such things as shoulds and woulds in the universe." "There aren't?" I'm starting to suspect Keith a bit. For someone in Anxiety Management, he's giving me an exercise that is fairly confusing and anxiety-provoking. "No," he says. "There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way." "Ah." "You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. Your life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?" "I don't see how it's really possible, seeing as I'm on the phone with you. — Ned Vizzini

Well, there are lot of people who make a lot of money off the fifth- and sixth-life crises. All of a sudden they have a ton of consumers scared out of their minds and willing to buy facial cream, designer jeans, SAT test prep courses, condoms, cars, scooters, self-help books, watches, wallets, stocks, whatever ... all the crap that the twenty-somethings used to buy, they now have the ten-somethings buying. They doubled their market! — Ned Vizzini

But most of all I feel my brain, up there taking in blood and looking out on the world and noticing humor and light and smells and dogs and every other thing in the world - everything in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

I don't believe in destiny; I just believe in biology, and hotness, and wanting girls. — 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. — Ned Vizzini

How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time? — Ned Vizzini

Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself." "Okay." "Only then does healing take place." "All right. — Ned Vizzini

Brooklyn is a big fat blob with its own ugly shape across from Manhattan; it looks like Jabba the Hutt counting his money. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

I'm smart but not enough
just smart enough to have problems. — Ned Vizzini

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

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

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. — Ned Vizzini

Jimmy may have only a few sentences in his repertoire, but he knows to keep going when pretty girls pay attention to him. — Ned Vizzini

Up next is Noelle.
'Hey, girl!'
'Don't you dare start calling me that. This is very nice of you to do. — Ned Vizzini

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade? — Ned Vizzini

Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. — Ned Vizzini

Never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

I made that test my bitch. — Ned Vizzini

Pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom
It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, "who's coolest?"
Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together — Ned Vizzini

I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs. — Ned Vizzini

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

I feel it in my pocket. I don't want to lose it. It's one of the only things that's making me me right now. Without my cell phone, who will I be? I won't have any friends because I don't have their numbers memorized. I'll barely have a family since I don't know their cell phone numbers, just their home line. I'll be like an animal. — Ned Vizzini

Time is a person-made concept. — Ned Vizzini

And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious. — Ned Vizzini

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

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? — Ned Vizzini

I ask the nurse wrapping up her dispensing duties if I need any meds, and she says I'm not scheduled for any. I ask her if I can have some. She asks what I need them for. I tell her, to deal with this crazy place. She says if they had pills for that, they wouldn't need places like this in the first place, would they? — Ned Vizzini

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

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

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. — Ned Vizzini

We wear our problems diffrently — Ned Vizzini

I thought you were interesting. Why did you do what it said?" "I ... " I can't think up a fake answer quickly enough. "I'm a straight guy, you know. So if a girl talks to me or whatever, I'll do exactly what she says." Wait, now: make it a compliment. "Especially if it's a pretty girl." I smile. — Ned Vizzini

Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis. — Ned Vizzini

My one friend is a screwup - a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it. — Ned Vizzini