Ned Vizzini Want Quotations

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.

I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" 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.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

I just want to not be me.

I eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear,

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.