284 Quotes by Ned Vizzini

Life is a nightmare.

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

Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Jog. Run. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. 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. So now live for real. Live. Live. Live. Live.

If you can’t get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

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.

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.

If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression – maybe that’s what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.

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.

But it suddenly makes sense: I’d like to be under the sea, as an octopus.