284 Quotes by Ned Vizzini

I’m young, but I’m already screwing up my life. I’m smart but not enough – just smart enough to have problems.

We look into each other’s eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

Well, my dad died when I was three.” Shoot. That’s right. Some of us have actual things to complain about.

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.

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.

And you shouldn’t assume that everything is always about you.

I learn something I didn’t know about the human body : if your mom cries, you cry.

Life can’t be cured, but it can be managed.

It’s not a big thing, but I guess it’s true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.