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Category: Ned Vizzini

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

sad, sleep, wake-up

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

I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me.

And I’m not assuming and I’m not judging. I’m just being curious.

curiosity, judgmental

After college, I went through my own shit and decided that all physical suffering in the world couldn’t compare to mental anguish. And when I got myself, I decided to help other people.

mental-health, mental-illness, psychiatry

I shrug. I don’t really need to explain this to Aaron. He’s been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he’s going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

confidence, friends, friendship

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.

air, relationship

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. They happen because of it. They depend on it.

humour, inspirational, pensieve

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

learning, life, life-and-living

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?

life-and-living

I’ll fail.””At schoool.””Failing at school is failing at life.

depression, failing

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. … you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.