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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 863f314 | It's been one nightmare after another, Christina thought. Pretty soon I won't be able to keep track of them all. | Caroline B. Cooney | ||
| 60f72c0 | I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about that. Jesus figures of you're sorry. Jesus, I thought, you blew it. Not everybody is sorry. | children forgiveness | Caroline B. Cooney | |
| a70f508 | Well, there are lot of people who make a lot of money off the fifth- and sixth-life crises. All of a sudden they have a ton of consumers scared out of their minds and willing to buy facial cream, designer jeans, SAT test prep courses, condoms, cars, scooters, self-help books, watches, wallets, stocks, whatever...all the crap that the twenty-somethings used to buy, they now have the ten-somethings buying. They doubled their market! | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2b70130 | Yes. Now, you might not want to become so friendly with your fellow patients on the floor." "Why not?" "That can distract people from the healing process." "How?" "This is a hospital. It's not a place to make friends. Friends are wonderful, but this place is about you and making you feel better." "But..." I fidget. "I respect Humble. I respect Bobby. I have more respect for them after a day and a half than I do for most people...in the worl.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| e733410 | You don't want any of your Anchors being members of the opposite sex you're attracted to," Dr. Minerva says. "Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| c0b502a | I thought you were interesting. Why did you do what it said?" "I..." I can't think up a fake answer quickly enough. "I'm a straight guy, you know. So if a girl talks to me or whatever, I'll do exactly what she says." Wait, now: make it a compliment. "Especially if it's a pretty girl." I smile." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 409c02b | The mother I'm completely over but the daughter I love to death. The mother I'd like to love to death." "Heh." "Don't do me any favors; only laugh if it's funny." "It is!" | Ned Vizzini | ||
| cb5645f | A guy from Bear Stearns had visited our class, thin and bald with a gold watch. He told us that if we were interested in getting into finance, we had better work hard and smart because a lot of machines were able to make investment decisions now, and in the future, computer programs would run everything. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| fa1d3a1 | He asked the class how many of us were taking computer science, and everybody but me and this one girl who didn't speak English raised their hands. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 87000d4 | Great, excellent," the guy had said. "You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 2e2f9e7 | Once the music starts he goes right into the Jimmy-verse, banging against his washboard and letting it all hang out in a piercing falsetto that's surprisingly on key. The thing is, he doesn't sing "I Shot the Sheriff." He sings only one phrase: "How sweet it is!" | Ned Vizzini | ||
| c86da22 | I know that you're not supposed to think about dancing--what is that stupid expression, Sing like no one's listening, dance like no one's watching?--whatever. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 623e61c | I knew too, but I didn't like to think about that. Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d32f57e | Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f6fc49d | You deserve them because you chose them. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 1d9e953 | Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/ volunteer/employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| fcb4d2d | There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people--younger people-- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 9075712 | We look into each other's eyes as we shake hands. His are 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. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 0da6e7d | I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| d8fa332 | Now put down only what you actually had to do in the event." "What I had to do?" "Right. Because there are no such things as shoulds and woulds in the universe." "There aren't?" I'm starting to suspect Keith a bit. For someone in Anxiety Management, he's giving me an exercise that is fairly confusing and anxiety-provoking. "No," he says. "There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in y.. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 04348f5 | People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and...you know...ready to explode. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| ec239cd | This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying. The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but I think they do it to make us feel important. One thing's for sure: no one else in life says to me, "Wait, Craig, what were you going to say?" | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 8a465a6 | You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how it was before... | Ned Vizzini | ||
| f5e29bc | I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted | Ned Vizzini | ||
| cdfb249 | What were you tring to do, soldier? I was trying to eat, sir! And what happened? I got caught thinking about some crap, sir! What kind of crap? How I want to live less than my parent's dog. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 85c5241 | When we got together we would start projects: an alarm clock torn apart and distributed over a wall, a stop-motion video of Lego people having sex, a Web site for pictures of toilets. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| bfe6598 | Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth, and it come to ya!" I smile." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| b13faf1 | Let's concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble," says the psychologist." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 586979b | And I know about psychologists, when they're writing down what you're saying they're really writing down how much money they're going to get when they sell their latest yacht, because they're all yuppies with no respect.... | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 66e9530 | Kid like you, got money, got a family, you'll be out in a few days. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 349cd3e | I didn't go to sleep until four, but 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 | ||
| 1992f24 | There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 1210217 | Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on Yourself." "Only then does healing take place." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 7f37030 | There's a lot of yuppies in this place, and you have that look about you, you know--the yuppie look of people with money?" "Yeah." "People who don't care about other people." | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 9147efb | Like in Animal Farm, which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 5dc052a | Everything in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 164316f | It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed. | life | Ned Vizzini | |
| abeaafb | 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? | Ned Vizzini | ||
| cf3bb9f | When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: "Eulalia." And like an idiot, that's what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" -- | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 154513d | ARE THOSE FRIGHTENING THINGS THAT APPEAR WHEN WE TAKE OUR MIND OFF OUR GOALS; DREAMS ARE ONLY DREAMS UNTIL YOU WAKE UP AND MAKE THEM REAL; THINGS I HAVE TO DO TODAY: 1) BREATHE IN 2) BREATHE OUT. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 0aac05e | A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationships with your friends are important. 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 .. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 61d8564 | They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important-- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so--but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. All you have to do is talk to people, and this was back when I could talk to anybody. | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 27c9fc6 | People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it | Ned Vizzini | ||
| 87f9f02 | The sweating is awful. It's not as bad as the not eating, but it's weird--cold sweat, all over my forehead, having to be wiped off every two minutes, smelling like skin concentrate. People notice. It's one of the few things people notice. | Ned Vizzini |