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 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

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! — 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

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. — 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

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 ... — Ned Vizzini

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty. — Ned Vizzini

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed. — 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

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. — Ned Vizzini

It's tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won't be able to deal with it. — Ned Vizzini

When you mess something up, you learn for the next time. — Ned Vizzini

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. — 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

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

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. — 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

The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it. — Ned Vizzini

What about: I got Jack and shit and Jack left town. — 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

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. — 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

her cheeks a slight Asian red; — Ned Vizzini

But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own. — Ned Vizzini

I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody? — Ned Vizzini

That's worst than gonerreha, man! — Ned Vizzini

I'd feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and y words and my soul. — Ned Vizzini

Bobby sips his coffee. If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead. — 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

Never go up against a Sicilian when death, is on the line.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..........(thump) — Ned Vizzini

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

Its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself — Ned Vizzini

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

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany. — 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

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked at the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being. — Ned Vizzini

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

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. — Ned Vizzini

I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus. — 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

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow. — Ned Vizzini

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

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. — Ned Vizzini

Once you have a kid, it's amazing how quickly people ask, 'So are you going to stop at just one?' — Ned Vizzini

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. — 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. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

Don't kill yourself, okay? — 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

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think ... it's me". — Ned Vizzini

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

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. — Ned Vizzini

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

I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it. — 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

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. — Ned Vizzini

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. — 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

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

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

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. — Ned Vizzini

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. — 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. — 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

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. — Ned Vizzini

There are only things that could have turned out different. You don't have any should or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. [ ... ] You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. You life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible? — Ned Vizzini

I was still getting 93's, but what the hell, someone had to get them. — 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. — Ned Vizzini

Kid like you, got money, got a family, you'll be out in a few days. — 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

Do you have difficulty sleeping?"
"Sometimes not. When I do it's bad, though. I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter. — 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. — Ned Vizzini

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

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky. — Ned Vizzini

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

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. — 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

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? — Ned Vizzini

I was already obsessed. The test had offended me by giving me questions I couldn't answer. I intended to kill it. — Ned Vizzini

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. — Ned Vizzini

A guy from Bear Stearns had visited our class, thin and bald with a gold watch. He told us that if we were interested in getting into finance, we had better work hard and smart because a lot of machines were able to make investment decisions now, and in the future, computer programs would run everything. — Ned Vizzini