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It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
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"Noelle: But I look like a freak now.
Craig: I told you, Noelle, everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. But people aren't going to look at you and run away. They're going to look at you and think that they can talk to you, and that you'll understand, and that you're brave, and that you're strong. And you are. You're brave and strong. p.366-367"
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"And I mouth into the phone, I love you, in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well in the next life. If there is one. If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?"
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"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."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"You all right, man?'
This should be my name. I could be like a super hero: You All Right Man.
Ah...' I stumble.
Don't bug Craig,' Ronny is like. 'He's in the Craig zone. He's Craig-ing out."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?"
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"It's a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn't want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"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."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)"
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"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."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"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."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"I'm waiting for her to say "Craig, what you need to do is X" and for the Shift to occur. I want there to be a Shift so bad. I want to feel my brain slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, and witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise, and I had incredible promise, and I spoke up in class because I was excited and smart about the world. I want the Shift so bad. I'm waiting for the phrase that will invoke it. It'll be like a miracle within my life. But is Dr. Minerva a miracle worker? No. She's a thin, tan lady from Greece with red lipstick."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Tentacles is my term — the Tentacles are the evil tasks that invade my life. Like, for example, my American History class last week, which necessitated me writing a paper on the weapons of the Revolutionary war, which necessitated me traveling to the Metropolitan Museum to check out some of the old guns, which necessitated me getting the subway, which necessitated me being away from my cell phone and email for 45 minutes, which meant that I didn't get to respond to a mass mail sent out by my teacher asking who needed extra credit, which meant other kids snapped up the extra credit, which meant I wasn't going to get a 98 in the class, which meant I wasn't anywhere close to a 98.6 average (body temperature, that's what you needed to get), which meant I wasn't going to get into a Good College, which meant I wasn't going to have a Good Job, which meant I wasn't going to have health insurance, which meant I'd have to pay tremendous amounts of money for the shrinks and drugs my brain needed, which meant I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing — homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers."
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

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