284 Quotes by Ned Vizzini

If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.

I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.′ ‘Why?’ ‘Because embers turn into flames.

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.

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.

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

I raise my wrist, show him the bracelets. I have pride in them now. They’re true, and people can’t screw with them. And when you say the truth you get stronger.

I was still getting 93’s, but what the hell, someone had to get them.

It’s so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

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.