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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9043adb | What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 59f8f03 | SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e645f53 | 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. | friends friendship | Ned Vizzini | |
| b2baf44 | Yeah, and she's really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don't look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 0b1ed24 | one quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 160a027 | Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| ae622a3 | You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 9e852d0 | Then I get up and turn on the light. (Did anyone notice I was in here in the dark? Did they see the lack of light under the crack and notice it like a roach? Did Nia see?) Then I look in the mirror. I look so normal. I look like I've always looked, like I did before the fall of last year. Dark hair and dark eyes and one snaggled tooth. Big eyebrows that meet in the middle. A long nose, sort of twisted. Pupils that are naturally large--it's .. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 02e4cca | 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 | ||
| c1f872a | your relationship with air--that's key. You can't break up with air. | relationship | Ned Vizzini | |
| 1300055 | I was already obsessed. The test had offended me by giving me questions I couldn't answer. I intended to kill it. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 8b7b809 | I don't want to brag, but if I go through this, and I go back to camp, I'll have something unique to talk about. I can be like, 'Hey, not only am I not a virgin, I lost my virginity to a frog-headed exotic dancer.' Will that be something to brag about or something to be ashamed of? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 3b47c19 | Verbal Greeting, Refusal to Touch Hands, Public Denial of Formerly Agreed-upon Opinion, Refusal to Repeat a Joke and Mortification Event (a catch-all). I use the Humiliation | Ned Vizzini | ||
| fbe150d | The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person... | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 17089e6 | Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| bb4a4f3 | My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| b9af3d6 | If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| cb92324 | Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some kind of freak, when I'm not the freak; Rich is the freak. Clearly. When I grow up, that had better be understood and I had better be compensated, or I'm going to shoot myself in the head. | coming-of-age cool freak sex teenagers teens | Ned Vizzini | |
| 7dab461 | I used to not want to call them shrinks, but now that I've been through so many, I feel entitled to it. It's an adult term, and it's disrespectful, and I'm more than two thirds adult and I'm pretty disrespectful, so what the hell. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 851a821 | I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f4c0962 | We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read. John Roebling. Aided by his wife, and then his son. He died during construction. But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. I wanted to leave something like that behind. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I felt like I had taken the first steps | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 7fa8010 | But 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. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 82651dc | Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| a9d66e3 | We all live within time. It rules us. | mental-health time young-adult | Ned Vizzini | |
| cfef336 | It is five in the morning. I have woken up without any alarm. I have woken up because the thoughts are so loud, and none of them mean me well. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 0cb6680 | I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early - at eight - with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f23879e | I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me. | lust | Ned Vizzini | |
| 7b4c1ce | 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-illness psychiatry | Ned Vizzini | |
| 3ab98bb | Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 3534064 | At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 40f92d6 | Life's not about feeling better; it's about getting the job done. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d4eec9c | I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2d15c6b | You're not getting in anything, so between us it's going to be outcest, and that's just another word for friendship. --Jocelyn Lawson | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| ae27617 | Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 34b3a4f | Let me think Thinking is all I have If wisdom is a pretense Then let me pretend to be wise | wise | Walter Dean Myers | |
| 25a53fe | Go. Think. Turn black into white. Night into day. I am tired of thinking. I know where it will lead me and I don't Want to be there. Go love. Do your thinking. | thinking | Walter Dean Myers | |
| efbee93 | The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence? | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| a2b2b9a | A happy fly If I live Or if I die | William Blake | ||
| a7dcbff | Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 9a4cb9a | L)ife is like walking between two tall buildings on a tightrope. For some, the rope is wide enough and the walk is easy. For others, it's narrow and hard and maybe there's a strong wind blowing through their days | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 88cecb9 | But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| f1f17c8 | I believe that inspiration will always try its best to work with you--but if you are not ready or available, it may indeed choose to leave you and to search for a different human collaborator. | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| f804e02 | People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mat.. | soul-mate | Elizabeth Gilbert | |
| 499c15a | sometimes you count the days, sometimes you weigh them. | life | Elizabeth Gilbert |