284 Quotes by Ned Vizzini

Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy.

See, because being Cool 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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

I don’t really need to explain this to Aaron. He’s been demoted.