"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much ameliorate time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a contrary nightmare, like when you wake upwards from a nightmare yous're so relieved. I woke upwardly into a nightmare." ― Ned Vizzini, Information technology's Kind of a Funny Story
"I can't swallow and I can't sleep. I'one thousand not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?" ― Ned Vizzini, Information technology's Kind of a Funny Story
"I waste at least an 60 minutes every day lying in bed. And then I waste fourth dimension pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste matter fourth dimension being tranquility and non proverb annihilation considering I'm agape I'll stutter." ― Ned Vizzini, It'due south Kind of a Funny Story
"Its and so hard to talk when you desire to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it'southward not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like information technology's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out polish and in conjunction with your encephalon the way normal people's words exercise; they come up out in chunks as if from a crushed-water ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So yous just continue quiet." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"People are screwed up in this globe. I'd rather be with someone screwed upward and open up about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"I'one thousand fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something incorrect with that?" "Admittedly." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I demand to." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"Sometimes I just remember depression's one style of coping with the globe. Similar, some people become drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out in that location that yous accept to practise something to deal with it." ― Ned Vizzini, Information technology'south Kind of a Funny Story
"See, when you mess something upward, you larn for the next fourth dimension. It's when people compliment y'all that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep information technology upwardly." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"I'm non improve, you know. The weight hasn't left my head. I feel how easily I could autumn back into information technology, lie down and not consume, waste my time and curse wasting my time, wait at my homework and freak out and go and chill at Aaron'due south, wait at Nia and be jealous again, take the subway home and hope that it has an accident, become and get my cycle and head to the Brooklyn Span. All of that is still in that location. The only affair is, information technology'due south not an option now. It's just… a possibility, like it's a possibility that I could turn to dust in the adjacent instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an all-seeing consciousness. It's not a very likely possibility." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"Then why am I depressed? That's the one thousand thousand-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Coil question; not even the owl knows the answer to that ane. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"Some of the nearly profound truths virtually us are things that we finish proverb in the middle." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"What happened when y'all woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don't know what it was, but when I woke upwardly, I had this awful realization that I was awake. Information technology hit me like a brick in the groin." "Similar a brick in the groin, I see." "I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sorry. It was most like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake upward from a nightmare y'all're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare." "Yes." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"I wanted to tell people, "My depression is interim up today" equally an excuse for not seeing them, just I never managed to pull information technology off." ― Ned Vizzini, Information technology's Kind of a Funny Story
"I should be a success and I'm non and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in club. I'1000 yet a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?" ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"No," mom says, looking at me in the eyes. "What's a triumph is that yous woke upwardly this forenoon and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today." ― Ned Vizzini, It'southward Kind of a Funny Story
"The absolute worst role of being depressed is the nutrient. A person's relationship with food is i of their near important relationships. I don't think your human relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't call up your human relationship with your friends are important. Only 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 information technology." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
"My family unit shouldn't take to put upwards with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'chiliad on boob tube." ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
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